The Benefits of Toner Cartridge Recycling

Do you go through a large amount of toner cartridges at your office every month?

Are you looking for a more eco-friendly, sustainable way to get rid of them?

Have you considered toner cartridge recycling?

Used toner cartridges can accumulate quickly, especially if your business prints a lot of marketing materials, meeting agendas, or inter-office memos. If you’re struggling to find storage space for toner cartridges, large batch recycling is a great option for you!

E-waste is the mist rapidly growing segment of the municipal solid waste stream. Recycling e-waste benefits the environment by:

• Conserving natural resources
• Disposing of toxic chemicals properly
• Protecting and supporting your community by reducing the amount of e-waste that’s incinerated and placed in landfills, which can negatively impact air and water quality.

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If you are an MCS customer, we can help your company go green and save you money through our products and services, including FREE e-waste disposal. For those businesses that don’t already partner with us, we’re happy to pick up cartridges and other e-waste for $100.  Being kind to the environment is part of our Culture of Kindness. We are all in this together.

Learning more is as easy as calling us at 734-213-5400 or sending us an email. See how we can help with toner cartridge recycling for your Ann Arbor business today!

What’s the Difference Between Cartridge Reuse and Recycling?

Many people use “reuse” and “recycle” interchangeably, but when it comes to sustainability, there are specific differences. 

While recycling is a viable way to contribute to renewable resources, reuse actually requires less energy consumption and helps keep materials from landfills. The best solution for a robust economy is a combination of recycling and reuse that can help collect and dispose of waste in a way that doesn’t impact already overburdened landfills! 

For toner cartridges specifically, you can use the “reuse and recycle” method by using remanufactured cartridges.

Make sure you take into account that while there’s no distinction in print quality based on manufacturing type (compatible vs. remanufactured vs. original equipment manufacturer (OEM), there are differences across various brands and manufacturers owing to the manufacturing conditions as well as the post-manufacturing evaluation process.

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If you are an MCS customer, we can help your company go green and save you money through our products and services, including FREE e-waste disposal. For those businesses that don’t already partner with us, we’re happy to pick up cartridges and other e-waste for $100.  Being kind to the environment is part of our Culture of Kindness. We are all in this together.

Learning more is as easy as calling us at 734-213-5400 or sending us an email. See how we can help with toner cartridge recycling for your Ann Arbor business today!

Implement These “Green” Solutions at Your Office

Have you considered toner cartridge recycling as a part of your overall sustainability plan?

Besides in-office recycling programs, or switching from paper and plastic to reusable materials, you can also go green with the way you print at your company!

There are several ways you can increase the green solutions in your office:

• Responsible paper sourcing: Make sure that either your paper or other raw materials come from eco-friendly sources. Besides recycled fibers, coating, bleaching, and other variables all play into paper’s environmental impact. Evaluate other business practices from your suppliers like shipping with hybrid vehicles, encouraging employees to telecommute, or other “green” practices.
• Using soy and vegetable-based printer inks: Traditional inks are petroleum-based and have a number of negative environmental effects. Vegetable-based inks, usually made with soy, are more sustainable. They make recycling easier too, as they make de-inking easier.

Read more on our website!

If you are an MCS customer, we can help your company go green and save you money through our products and services, including FREE e-waste disposal. For those businesses that don’t already partner with us, we’re happy to pick up cartridges and other e-waste for $100.  Being kind to the environment is part of our Culture of Kindness. We are all in this together.

Learning more is as easy as calling us at 734-213-5400 or sending us an email. See how we can help with toner cartridge recycling for your Ann Arbor business today!

How to Implement an Office-Wide Recycling Program

Recycling in general is a great way to bring your office together for a cause. You might be doing this already – having a recycling area for scrap paper, or bottles and cans in the office kitchen. Why not start doing this with ink cartridges too?

Here’s why recycling printer ink is important:

1. Nearly 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone.
2. It takes one gallon of oil to make a mew laser cartridge.
3. About 70 percent of used printer cartridges are being thrown away instead of recycled.
4. A laser cartridge in landfill can take up to 450 (!) years to decompose, but some components can take over 1,000 years!

According to 1-800-RECYCLING.com, only around 30% of cartridges are recycled, which leaves a great opportunity for organizations and businesses like yours to participate in recycling programs.

Encourage your staff to recycle cartridges after they’re no longer usable instead of throwing them away!

How to Recycle Your Empty Toner Cartridges

There are many options for recycling empty toner cartridges that you can take advantage of! From bringing empty cartridges to an office supply store to recycling by mail programs, there is no shortage of ways you can participate to make the world a greener place.

Read more on our website! 

If you are an MCS customer, we can help your company go green and save you money through our products and services, including FREE e-waste disposal. For those businesses that don’t already partner with us, we’re happy to pick up cartridges and other e-waste for $100.  Being kind to the environment is part of our Culture of Kindness. We are all in this together.

Learning more is as easy as calling us at 734-213-5400 or sending us an email. See how we can help with toner cartridge recycling for your Ann Arbor business today!