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Waycam turn old toner cartridges into furniture
Toner
cartridges are normally sent to landfill at the end of their useful
life, where the plastic will sit for hundreds of years before decaying.
A company called Waycam, however, has an unusual solution to this
problem; they turn the old cartridges into ‘plastic wood’ and make
garden furniture out of it.The process recycles 100 per cent of the
cartiridges, with all metal components being removed and sent off for
recycling at another plant. The plastic is then recycled into TRI-wood,
which stands for Toner Recycled into Wood.Toner cartridges cause all
sorts of environmental problems: toner powder can also leak into the
soil, which isn’t good news. Even worse, they are sometimes
incinerated, releasing their stored carbon into the atmosphere.”Until
now the only solution for Toner cartridges with no value or that have
already been re-manufactured once was either land fill or
incineration,” say Waycam on their website. “We accept all cartridges
regardless of age, type original or re-manufactured and recycle all the
parts without landfill or incineration.”Waycam can also handle
recycling of computers, old electronic equipment and TVs. What they
will think of to make out of those, we have no idea.
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