Does recycling really help the environment?

Aug 13th, 2009 by admin

Australians throw away more than 18 million printer cartridges every year! This means over 5,000 tonnes of discarded rubbish ends up as unhealthy landfill. How can we stop this? I guess it requires us all to have a recycling mindset. You might find this easier if you consider the insight environmental campaigner Anita Roddick brought to the issue of rubbish – to paraphrase her she said ‘we never throw things away we just put them somewhere else’. The unfortunate result of throwing away old ink cartridges is that they have the potential to contaminate waterways and the environment in general. We would like to encourage you to embrace the many Green Policies that responsible businesses embrace. For example at inkdepot.com.au we encourage our customers to place their old empty cartridges in Planet Ark cartridge recycling bins found at many participating outlets http://www.recyclingnearyou.com.au/ . All types and brands of printer cartridges used in printers, photocopiers, multi-function centres and fax machines can be placed in the bin. All of the printer cartridges recycled by Planet Ark’s partner , Close the Loop^®, are done so with zero waste to landfill. To date the industry-funded Planet Ark program has recycled more than 4 million cartridges via 15,000 businesses and over 2,300 retail outlets.Watch this interesting video on how recycling ink cartridges can achieve great things.

So, yes recycling can help the environment in a very positive and long term way.