Geek Offices Recycles

 

Today was recycling day at Geek Offices. Over the past year we’ve been saving up used toner cartridges from our laser printers and now, for the first time we’ve mailed them back to the manufacturer, with the prepaid postage labels they provided, for refurbishing and reuse. It turns out Brother, whose printers we use, recycles more than 2 million toner cartridges a year, in Europe alone. The company got its start recycling in Europe in the early 2000s and has since expanded to other parts of the world including the U.S.

“We are now able to reuse around 80% of the parts in the cartridge we receive and by replacing what is needed, we can refill and resell them at a quality that is as good as new,” the company says.

The post office employee we took the returns to seemed a bit overwhelmed when we put them all down on the counter. Perhaps we won’t wait another year before we take the next batch in.

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