by Shane Henson — June 13, 2011—A new recycling program aimed at increasing the collection of used printer cartridges and the sale of remanufactured cartridges has been launched through a partnership with Waste Management, Cartridge World Group Holdings and Cartridge World North America. This program will help Waste Management meet its goal of tripling the amount of recyclables it processes by 2020.
The free “Recycle-2-Save” program will be handled by WM LampTracker, Inc., a subsidiary of Waste Management, which will provide recycling kits for collection of the used ink and toner cartridges. Each kit includes shipping to the customer’s facility, prepaid return shipping via UPS to the recycling center, a recycling certificate, and a promotion code to save on the customer’s next purchase of printer cartridges.
Waste Management notes the bottom-line and sustainability advantages for businesses in that not only can they recycle their used ink and toner cartridges in an environmentally responsible way for free, they can also buy the replacement supplies for their business’s needs at a substantial discount over new, non-recycled cartridges.
Waste Management says the cartridges will be remanufactured and sold at 20-40 percent less than original OEM cartridges, and that those cartridges that cannot be remanufactured will be shredded and recycled. The remanufactured cartridges will be sold through a co-branded site, Amazon.com/PrintClub.
