Plastic Printer Cartridges & Toxic Ink
HP announced they plan to use twice as much recycled plastic in their cartridges this year.
Last year they used 5 million pounds of recycled plastic to manufacture cartridges. They use both water bottles and old cartridges to manufacture new ones.
“By developing the technology to use recycled plastics in Original HP inkjet print cartridges, we have the opportunity to reduce the environmental impact HP products have on the planet,” said Michael Hoffmann, senior vice president, Supplies, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “HP’s considerable investments in building a recycling infrastructure made this achievement possible, and this is just the beginning of what we hope to accomplish.”(Palo Alto, CA, Jan.30, 2008, World-Wire)
Refilling Cartridges and Toxic Ink
Some cartridges are easier than others are but I happen to have a harder one right now. It requires a tool to pull the whole top off the thing, which is bad enough. Then you have to somehow keep the ink from spilling all over your fingers, cartridge and what you have underneath to catch spills.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I commend HP for taking this step, they are the industry leader in printers and ink, lets hope all the smaller players follow suit on this like Xerox has.
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