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http://marketnews.ca/news_detail.asp?nid=4244
HP Expands Ink/Toner Recycling Initiative
Both
companies and consumers are focusing more and more on being
environmentally-friendly, keep electronics out of landfills, and
recycle components that can be recycled and re-used. HP is known for
its ink and toner recycling program, and the company is now taking its
efforts one step further by joining forces with Staples Business Depot
to create retail drop-off locations.As part of the pilot
program, consumers can return used HP ink cartridges and LaserJet toner
cartridges to more than 300 Staples stores across Canada. Once
returned, the cartridges will be recycled through HPs own recycling
facility, and will thus be diverted from landfills.“We introduced HP
Planet Partners long before ‘going green’ was a trend, and over time,
HP has made print cartridge recycling easier and more widely
available,” says John Solomon, Vice President and General Manager,
North American Consumer Business, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “As
environmental awareness and customer participation have increased,
we’re proud to offer customers authorized retail recycling locations as
a natural evolution of the program.”Previous to this
initiative, HP would include envelopes in cartridge packaging so that
consumers could mail used cartridges back to the company. The company
says it will no longer do this in order to reduce the amount of
shipping material required for recycling returns. Postage-paid return
options will continue to be available at http://www.hp.com/recycle, and return
labels will still be included in LaserJet toner cartridge packaging.HP
estimates that if all ink cartridges returned via in-box envelopes in
2008 were returned in bulk from authorized retail recycling locations
instead, the amount of shipping materials used would have been reduced
by more than 600,000 pounds. This equates to enough cartridges to fill
more than 15 tractor trailers!In order to accommodate the increased
recycling efforts, HP will be doubling the size of its North American
ink cartridge recycling facility to more than 80,000 square-feet.
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