Recycling Cartridges

Printer cartridges are made up of a complex combination of plastics, metals, foam, ink and toner. Throwing them into landfill represents a waste of resources and contributes to the growing problem of electronic waste. By recycling your cartridges you are helping to reduce this waste.
Why Recycle?
There are many environmental benefits from recycling your cartridges.
What Can Be Recycled?
All inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and toner bottles from participating brands can be placed in the 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' box.
Where Can I Recycle?
Find your nearest participating outlet with the special 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' boxes.
What Happens To The Cartridges?
All of the printer cartridges collected will be returned to Close the Loop® where they will be sorted and processed.
FAQs
Here are some questions that are often asked about 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark'.
Bigger Picture
A wealth of information on recycling in general.
- Cartridge Recycling Factsheet (937kb pdf file)
A summary of all the above information in a handy factsheet.
Documents marked with
may only be available in PDF format. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat (or the reader), a FREE reader is available from Adobe.














