Recycling your own empty toner cartridges becomes easy as most manufacturers that sell recycled toner cartridges also collect empty ones to add extra convenience to their service. Basically, any cartridge that has been manufactured using parts and material from previously used products can earn the name of "Recycled", regardless of the process or technology used.
AST Recognize the importance of preserving our environment and contributing to the global community. By Recycling printer cartridges, we conserve natural resources and energy by reducing the need for virgin materials. To help the impact of the thousands of cartridges thrown away each year, AST is encouraging you to think green and Remanufacture or Refill your empty printer cartridges. By promoting the use of Recycled ink toner cartridges we reduce the use of non biodegradable substances, thereby making a cleaner environment for the future generations. Recycling is the process of making or manufacturing new products from a product that has originally served for its purpose. For every 100,000 used cartridges recycled, we can save 9599 kilograms of aluminum, 40 tons of plastic, and 1,000,000 liters of oil. Ink toner cartridge recycling has virtually become synonymous with successful sustainable development.
The question 'how does recycling help the environment' does not have one simple answer. There are many ways that recycling helps and even the smallest step can have significant results.
When people think about recycling, they think of items like paper, glass & cans. E-waste which includes Laser Printer Cartridge, inkjet Printer Cartridge, Copier Cartridges etc. along with cell phones, Laptops and Servers have been somewhat overlooked but account for a growing portion of Recyclable material. E-Waste is having a larger and larger negative impact on our environment. In proper disposal of E-waste harm our environment by damaging air, soil and water and takes up ever increasing space in our landfills. And for the most part it takes less energy to make a product from recycled materials that it does to make it new form scratch!