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Everyone should be doing their part to recycle their cartridges after they are done using them. Unfortunately, many people throw their cartridge in the trash without giving it another thought. But the truth is that those cartridges will be hanging around the landfill for much longer than we will even be here. Every cartridge takes approximately 500 to 600 years to decompose. A polymer in the plastics that are used slows down the decomposing process.

Recycling your cartridges is as easy as getting involved in an ink or toner cartridge recycling program. Such a program collects cartridges so that they do not end up in the landfills. Instead of destroying the cartridges, they are simply turned over to a third party company that will remanufacture the cartridge, or repair it so it looks like new. Then the company will simply refill the cartridge with new ink. Creating new cartridges out of old cartridge means much less energy and water is wasted while less air pollution is being emitted.

If you are interested in supporting the environment and saving money in your wallet, then purchase remanufactured cartridges from now on. They are eco-friendly, cost efficient and just as good of quality as any brand name cartridge. So do your wallet a favor and do the environment a favor: invest in remanufactured cartridges today!

All you have to do to participate is wait until you have collected ten or twenty or more cartridges. Then send them via the post office to the company that is sponsoring the recycling program.