GreenTech’s new inkjet and toner cartridge recycling website provides the simplest way, in 5 easy steps, to recycle your empty or waste inkjet and toner cartridges. Just follow these easy peasy steps.
Find your cartridge: Enter the cartridge no. or short code in the text box here or you can click on the “Can’t find your cartridge?” link and select your cartridge from the step-by-step wizard.
Every year 55 million of printer cartridges are thrown in landfills of UK after they run empty. This not only increases pollution but poses threats to wildlife, humans and all other living beings. When the whole world is thinking about greener world, then why should we stay behind? Standup for a cause, and play your role in making this world green. Save the world by cartridge recycling today!
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Printer cartridges thrown in landfills contaminate the soil and thus cause deadly threats to the plant growth and those which feed on them. They are one of the major sources of increasing Read more…
If you are also a person fanatic about saving your environment, then you can find several ways by recycling the products you would have thrown otherwise. Do it either by recycling your printer cartridges, tyres or gadgets. In this post I will share one more idea for your recycling craves. Recycle, to turn your wastage into bright beautiful lights.
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While throwing away your old dresses take little of your time and collect zips from them. You can create a very beautiful dazzling lamp by recycling those Read more…
Did you know that your old mobile phones or printer cartridges could be used to protect the environment and help preserve wild life? If you take a look around your apartment or house, you will inevitably find several unwanted goods that can be recycled. Recycle cartridges first, that are lying idly in your home.
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When you recycle cartridges, you do not only save money but you potentially play a role in savouring those of the future generations as well as saving many lives (both animal and human). Printer cartridges thrown in landfills and dumps take 1000’s of years to decompose and in the process release harmful gases like nitrous oxide, that pollute both the air and water. Recycle cartridges, and you will also help create Read more…
The increasing use of printer cartridge has also been posing threats to green environment. To keep environment safe, it is necessary to decrease their amount in landfills either by printer cartridge recycling or by turning used cartridges into amazing products.
Did you know that printer cartridge recycling can also be done at home with little efforts and creativity?
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This amazing spaceship has been created by recycling old cartridges. The artist has magnificently Read more…
Environment friendly people are always in search of new ideas for saving environment and making the world green. Tyres if not recycled or disposed properly may cause serious threats to environment and health risk.
See below, how some geniuses have recycled tyres in unique and beautiful ways.
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This tyre frame for mirror has been made from recycled tyre. Intricately designed, layered and nailed with Read more…
You can employ your used toner cartridges in many ways. If you want to save money you can simply opt for recycling or buying remanufactured cartridges. However, at the same time you can be wild in your creativity and prepare decorative items out of your used printer cartridges for home. While browsing on the internet, I stumbled across an amazing retro Abbalux DIY lamp on Flickr. I found it worth sharing, enjoy the photo stream and praise the creativity used in making this colourful lamp!
Laborant48, used printer toner foil marvellously and created a master piece in the form of Retro lamp. Not only he has recycled his used toner cartridge foil, but has also re-used the wireframe for lamp which he had found on the street.
Get creative with your used toner cartridges, rather than filling in the landfills with carcinogenic elements present in the printer cartridges.
Is there a room in your office filled solely with used laser toner cartridges? Do your employees merely dump printer cartridges into the trash when printing, the text/images, suddenly go blank or turn light? If so, then it’s time for you to take a stand and unite your colleagues under one cause to recycle laser toner cartridges. There are many dire consequences of not to recycle laser toner cartridges. For one, the cartridges you throw in the garbage could end up in the many landfills that are already being mounded with toner cartridges.
The plastic in toner cartridges takes up to 1000 years to decompose and is hence environmentally hazardous along with many other materials disposed of in the process. Therefore, be more responsible for the sake of Read more…
Recycling saves you environment, and money both. Why not get inspired and appreciate the unusual ideas of recycling which are results of someone’s creative skills? GreenTech encourage recycling of all possible products and help the reader know about the advancement in “Modern Recycling”. We have collected some eye-widening examples of recycling from around the world.
Have a look at them:
Steven Rodrig is always flooded with unique ideas and creates amazing products which leave all of the viewers/fans in a fit of dumbstruck. He works with PCBs and invents unique items by using unusual item of old computer parts. Now, he has surprised all of us by these unique sandals made from computer worn-out parts.
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These data sandals are embellished with PC mother boards, ribbon wire and many of other electronic components. Some time back he created a Read more…
It is a well known fact that the 21st century has surpassed all the scientific advancements of the preceding centuries, making the world today a hub of technology. According to the World Development Report, 43.7 per 100 people use computers and printers in high-income countries. 90% of computers used at home in the UK have printers attached to them. This is supported by the fact that over 55 million printer cartridges, in the UK alone, are disposed of in landfills.
The high cost of new cartridges has made the concept of printer cartridge recycling increasingly popular and this gives the perfect opportunity to make/save money by giving your used cartridges to Read more…
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan has launched a new next generation erasable and re-useable e-Paper. This paper is being considered as an excellent replacement for the paper signs and posters which are produced daily in the millions.
The paper is known as i2R e-Paper that can be used 260 times, and needs no back light for printing. It can be produced in several colours. Re-printing is done by simply erasing the already written text by passing an electric current through it.
According to the researchers the mass production for the i2R paper will take two years. Then, we will be in a state to save few trees and environment. Until then, help environment by recycling your empty printer cartridges with GreenTech.
Via: [Reuters]
