Students Collect, Recycle Printer Cartridges
Boston’s WCVB features the recycling efforts of Luce Elementary School in Canton, which has been recycling ink jet cartridges for more than a year to raise money and help the environment.
The school is able to make between 50 cents and $10 for cartridges, which are then remanufactured, recycled and refilled with ink. The students decided on this project after realizing that 350 million cartridges end up in landfills every year.
For more ideas on how your school can get involved in an environmental project, visit Earth 911’s student section.
kathie Nichols
posted on September 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
We were collecting ink and toner cartridges to earn money for our high school library (litter for Literacy Project) but have run into a problem of not being able to find anyone willing to pay for the cartridges any longer. Does anyone know of a company that still collects and pays a decent amount for cartridges? We are in Manhattan Beach, Calif.