Don’t Waste those Empty Toner Cartridges
The environmental battle is real, urgent and you can help. For a start, stop throwing those empty laser cartridges away. There’s lots of ways you can do this by starting to recycle them.
Remember the mantra for our day has to “reduce, reuse and recycle”
the simple fact is that yoou can save valuable raw materials, energy and waste by simply using your lasetr toner cartidges again. In Europe nearly 50 million cartridges are bought each year for our laser printers, 95% of these only get used once. Considering each new cartridge takes between 1 and 2 litres of oil to produce, that’s a lot of waste.
These cartidges end up in landfill areas, thousands of tons every year across the world. The materials don’t exactly decompose quickly either, the plastics are usually non-biodegradable. Every single time you reuse a cartridge you save on waste landfill.
Don’t throw these cartidges away or even send off to the many ’so-called’ environmentally friendly remanufacture schemes, designed to save the print companies eco-reputation. Remember these empty toner cartridges all used to come with a little stopper which you could use to refill with compatible toner ink, now that’s eco friendly.
However the printng companies realised they were missing out on a huge source of revenue here – so they removed them.
There are many companies who can provide you with simple kits which can refill most empty toner cartridges. Many of these cartidges can be refilled 4 or 5 times with no real problems and each time you are saving up to 87% of the cost of a new laser toner cartridge.
All you need is one of the kits and some compatible toner to refill it, most cases it’s a 5 minute job, and requires no real skill. Empty toner cartridges have just run out of ink, simply refill them.
It’s true these cartridges are not broken, they’re not faulty, they are merely empty. If you notice a little plug or stopper on your cartridge, it means that your toner is one of the lucky few and is designed to be refilled. You can refill it quickly by buying a bottle of replacement toner.
Other cartridges need you to create a refiller hole but it’s very simple with the right kit anyone can do this. You don’t need to tamper with the cartridge itself (as you have to in remanufacturing), so there’s little that can go wrong. You’re just filling it up with ink, have a look at this Refill Toner Review .
It won’t damage your printer, keep refilling the cartridge until the print quality starts to deteriate, then buy a new one. You will be saving yourself lots of money and helping the environment. Imagine if every one did this, saving millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands less toner cartridges being produced and thrown away.
So explore this possibility and please don’t throw away those empty toner cartridges, refill them and save some money.
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