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Martin City Hall Has Designated ink Cartridge Drop Off-Point
The city of Martin, Martin Beautiful, the University of Tennessee at Martin, UTM Recycles and the Weakley County Litter Program have all worked together to plan the Martin Clean Up Challenge April 15-20 leading up to Earth Day on April 22.
In coordination with the upcoming Clean Up Days program, Martin Mayor Randy Brundige announced a new twist to the event: Martin City Hall is now a designated drop-off zone for ink cartridges.
“It is important to me that Martin is a leader in rural West Tennessee encouraging our citizens and businesses to be environmentally conscious,” Brundige said. “City Hall is the people’s building, and we can serve as an easily accessible drop point encouraging our citizens to recycle ink cartridges.”
In Martin, there are increasingly fewer homes and businesses without computers. And if you own a computer, you likely have a printer hooked up to it. Toner cartridges are largely made of plastic. Getting one usage from it is a terrible waste of resources, Clean Up Day organizers said.
Plastic polymers decompose at a slow rate. Printer cartridges not recycled could lie in a landfill for up to 1,000 years, organizers said.
Brundige said City Hall also recycles its paper, plastics and encourages energy efficiency, in addition to establishing City Hall as an ink cartridge collection site.
To learn more or to sign up to be an active partipant in the Clean Up Challenge, contact organizers at recycle@utm.edu or 731-881-7370.Gloves and bags will be provided if needed, and April 20 will be a citywide pick-up day.
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