Today's motto is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. With everyone owning home computers and printers, there are a lot of ink cartridges being produced. Many of these cartridges can be recycled and refilled. Buying recycled cartridges to use in your printers can save over 50% on cost. Buying in bulk for business can save even more. The remanufactured cartridges perform as well as original manufacture ones. Perhaps sharing purchasing with another local business could help save cost.

These cartridges may seem small and insignificant in size, not taking up much room in a dump, but ONE medium sized business can create several 55-gallon drums filled with cartridges in one year. Count the number of businesses in your area and this can add up quickly to a large bulk destined for disposal.

To raise funds, some schools and charitable organizations are collecting used cartridges and sending them to recycle companies. Many of these companies pay from $2 to $10 for used cartridges.

This not only helps remove cartridges from the disposal stream, it helps the schools and charities. Consider donating to these organizations or using the return mail tag that many printers include in their packaging. Not only are recycling cartridges better for the environment, it's better for your company's bottom line.

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