There is a very real environmental battle taking place, which you can help. How about those empty toner cartidges from your laser printer. You can reduce your carbon footprint by starting to reuse 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 cartridges very often end up as landfill, thousands of tons all across the planet. 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. These empty cartridges work fine, they just need more ink.
Remember they’re not broken, not faulty, 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. All you need to do is buy a bottle of replacement toner and refill it.
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 touch the workings of the cartridge itself, so there’s little that can go wrong. You’re just filling it up with ink, have a look at this Refill Toner Review .
They won’t damage your printer, and you can refill the cartridge until you see a deteriation in the print quality and then buy a new one. You will save hundreds of dollars and reduce environmental impact significantly. 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.