As many of you know, I recently got a new printer. Today I hit the first li'l maintenance check - replacing the toner cartridge. I'm happy to report that Brother makes it super-easy (and free!) to responsibly dispose of your old cartridges. Just go to their website and print out a pre-paid label, box up your old cartridge and pop it in the mail.
According to the verbiage on Brother's site:
Brother currently has a recycling program in place for used Brother branded consumable items. Some of the
select components that are returned to us will be remanufactured. Others are broken down so that all of the
appropriate metal and plastic components can be recycled.
More should recycle their cartridges! That printer manufacturers now also offers recycling programs is excellent, just sad to see that they implemented these programs first when they saw that they would benefit from being seen as green.
Greet tips on cartridge recycling and listed recycling programs can be found at http://www.inkguides.com/ink-toner-cartridge-recycling.asp
Posted by: Ann | April 16, 2009 at 07:56 AM