I was at my mom’s apartment the other day and she asked me if I could change the HP 78 ink cartridge on her HP printer. Of course, I obliged. My mom is 82 and doesn’t have much computer savvy. But to my dismay, she was just going to throw the old cartridge into the trash can. “Let me take it and recycle it,” I told her. “Oh, you can do that?” was her reply.

Unfortunately, my mom’s reaction is similar to many people’s. We live in a busy, throw-away world. Recycling works as long as it is easy. If the garbage company gives you a big bin to put recyclables in, that’s easy. If you have to take it in somewhere or mail it in somewhere, that’s not so easy. But it is important.

Almost every home in America now owns at least one inkjet printer and many have several. Inkjet cartridges are consumables that can be used up in a few months for home use, and in a few weeks for business use. What happens if we throw all that plastic and leftover ink away? It clogs up our landfills.

So how do you recycle an inkjet cartridge responsibly? The best way is to find a local charity or church organization that collects them. They get a few cents for each cartridge, so you help them out, plus they send them in to large clearinghouses that refill them and then resell them as remanufactured inkjet cartridges. This saves the consumer a lot of money and keeps the plastic containers out of a landfill. You can then re-buy these discount inkjet cartridges at a substantial savings.

A couple of things to be aware of. Some of the big manufacturers offer what they call a recycling program, but be sure to check out what happens to the cartridges before you participate. Many of the name-brand printer cartridge makers like Epson and HP incinerate the cartridges. They do this to prevent them from getting refilled so that you have to buy their OEM products. SO figure it out first.

The cost savings between original and remanufactured can be significant. My mom’s HP printer took the HP78 tri-color cartridge. I could have bought her a new OEM cartridge for around $35. Instead I bought a HP 78 remanufactured cartridge for $16. I saved money, a charity got a donation and I did my little part to help save the environment.

I urge you to do the same. You can find a list of all the compatible HP ink cartridges by number at this site. Of course, they also have print cartridges for every other major brand of printer too. Make a difference. Buy remanufactured inkjet cartridges.

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