PRINTER CARTRIDGE RECYCLING
Black Cat Printing & Stationery has been recycling printer cartridges from manufacturers including Canon, Brother, Hewlett Packard, Epson, Lexmark & more for several years now. How the time flies. An extraordinary amount of empty cartridges have been diverted from landfill. How can you help? It's easy. Simply drop in your used, empty or old printer inks, toners or drums into our store in Blackwood. We’ll recycle them for you!
WHAT CAN YOU RECYCLE?
We accept ink & toner cartridges, drums etc from all manufacturers. Excitingly, we are now also able to accept Mobile Phones & Chargers for recycling.
DROP OFF POINT
Black Cat Printing & Stationery
197 Main Road
Blackwood SA 5051
Monday - Friday 9-5
CARTRIDGES & MOBILE PHONES
Simply drop your used or unwanted printer cartridges in to Black Cat Printing & Stationery. We're proud supporters of the Cartridges 4 Planet Ark & Mobile Muster Programs
Our Recycling Partners
Recycling Printer Cartridges Makes A Difference! ♻️
CARTRIDGE RECYCLING
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.
Some of the environmental benefits of recycling your cartridges include:
Diverting waste from landfill. This is especially important since cartridges are one form of electronic waste, which is one of the fastest growing forms of waste. More than 3,440 kg of cartridges are diverted from landfill every day through the program.
Recovering resources. By collecting cartridges and sending them for reprocessing or recycling we are able to recover materials like plastics, metals and inks that can then be used to make new products.
Saving water and energy. Making most products from recycled materials uses less water and energy than making them from new materials.
Bring your empties or unwanted printer cartridges into our store in blackwood. All printer consumables placed in our recycling boxes are sent back to the Close the Loop recycling service in Melbourne. Once the printer cartridges have reached the recycling plant, they are hand sorted and their manufacturer and type recorded. Many of the laser cartridges are sent back to the original equipment manufacturers (oem) for their re-manufacturing or component recovery programs.
MOBILE PHONE RECYCLING
We're excited to announce we can now recycle Mobile Phones plus their batteries and chargers!! Simply drop them in to us! Don't let mobiles go to landfill or gather dust in a drawer! Help address the e-waste epidemic by recycling your used mobile phones and accessories. MobileMuster is the official recycling program for the mobile phone industry.
All mobile phone components are recycled to the highest environmental standards. None are refurbished or resold. Over 90% of the plastics and metals in the mobiles are recovered and used to make plastic fence posts, stainless steel and jewellery. It is estimated that one tonne of mobile phone circuits can yield the same amount of precious metals as 110 tonnes of gold ore, 123 tonnes of silver bearing ore and 11 tonnes of copper sulphide ore.
36.98 kgs Cartridges Recycled!
Thank you to everybody for their recycling efforts this month!
Let's continue to give printer manufacturers the opportunity to recycle their products.
Simply drop them in store, it's easy 🙂
An illuminating message from Planet Ark -
Whilst the program is FREE to all our participants, it is paid for and voluntarily supported by the manufacturers of your printers, photocopiers, and multifunction devices as part of their environmental responsibility. This ensures that their consumable products used by their customers are collected and recycled with Zero Waste to Landfill.
Manufacturers of cheap ‘compatible’ cartridges do not participate in any environmental schemes in Australia. All their cartridges go to landfill and our planet is paying a price so please support our participating Brands and buy original cartridges only.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CLOSE THE LOOP RECYCLING PROCESS?
Inkjet cartridges, toner bottles and drum units are processed through the patented, Australian made Green Machine. This machine reduces the cartridges to smaller particles that can be more easily separated. Inkjet cartridges are processed through another machine, which also uses patented world-first technology. Magnets are used to remove ferrous (iron-based) metals. While eddie currents are used to remove aluminium. This waste stream is a complex mix of potentially valuable and or hazardous raw materials needing state of the art equipment for safe processing and handling. Because the end result of this process is the recovery of ‘raw’ materials. These ‘secondary raw materials’ are further filtered, upgraded and then used instead of virgin materials in normal manufacturing to make new products. So the ultimate aim is to return the raw materials back to the original equipment manufacturer for re-use in new cartridges. All of this is achieved with zero waste going to landfill.
PRODUCTS PRODUCED FROM PRINTER CARTRIDGES
To fulfill the zero waste promise Close the Loop have come up with some fantastic products. Close the Loop processes inks, toner, drums & fusers from many manufacturers including Canon, Brother, Epson, Hewlett Packard, Lexmark, Konica Minolta just to name a few. The recycled materials are used to produce many products.
Printer cartridges you recycle through ‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark’ can be turned into Enviroliner pens, DIY planks that can be used for outdoor flooring or steps and also eWood raised garden beds.
Toner from the printer cartridges you recycle through Cartridges 4 Planet Ark can be turned into TonerPave asphalt and TonerPlas road surfaces. TonerPlas also uses stockpiled glass and soft plastics and is turned into a new asphalt called Reconophalt.
