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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.

Ever since the turn of the century, the concept of recycling has become increasingly popular amongst individuals and companies. The awareness created, with regards to the growing environmental hazards, has prompted this trend. One trend that has caught up recently with printer manufacturers and consumers alike is recycling toner cartridges.

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A staggering 20,000,000 toner cartridges used to fill up landfill sites in the United Kingdom per year. Even now, only 5% of all cartridges used get recycled. They don’t just take up useful land space and waste your tax money; they are environmentally hazardous! It takes centuries before even a single cartridge decomposes. Worse yet, any leftover toner that may leak from these used printer cartridges can (more…)

Recycling is both cost effective and good for the environment. Here at GreenTech, we’re very enthusiastic about recycling toner cartridges and encourage you to make use of our recycling scheme by sending us your used toner cartridges for remanufacture. However, we were curious as to what are other people around the world were doing with their old printing supplies, so we investigated further.

Cycle Path of Cartridges

West MacDonnell National Park in Australia had the ingenious idea of making a cycle path out of used toner cartridges!

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The path connects Alice Springs and Simpson’s Gap, a distance of just over ten-and-a-half miles, and is constructed almost entirely out of recycled printer cartridges. The path, plus a new viewing platform, was completed for $130,000 (just over £84,000 to you and me). The cost was kept low because (more…)

Small businesses have been the ones hardest hit by recession. Spiraling costs and barely breaking even have forced most of them out of business. To keep themselves in the game, they have to keep their costs low. Going green is the new way forward, and convincing small businesses to use recycled products at their workplace could help them cut down their costs without compromising on quality. One such way is through cartridge recycling.

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The idea behind cartridge recycling is simple: instead of purchasing new cartridges every time, buy remanufactured ones and send your used toner cartridges for recycling. This re-uses the constituent parts, preventing them going to landfill and providing a cheaper (more…)