HP, the world's largest printer maker, expanded its recycling program by letting customers drop off spent cartridges at Staples Inc.'s 1,500 U.S. stores from November, 2008.Customers will receive $3 toward Staples' purchases after they return inkjet and toner cartridges, Hewlett-Packard said in a statement. Up until now, cartridges had mainly been returned by mail.
Hewlett-Packard said it has recycled more than 250 million printer cartridges since 1991, and more than 600,000 pounds (about 272,000 kilograms) of shipping materials will be used to return ink cartridges by mail this year. The company will offer recycling at other retailers next year, said Jean Gingras, environmental program manager for the printer unit.
Hewlett-Packard is also doubling the size of its ink cartridge recycling center in Nashville, Tennessee, to more than 80,000 square feet, Gingras said. Hewlett-Packard includes some recycled materials in new products and used more than 5 million pounds of recycled plastics from water bottles and cartridges last year. It plans to double that amount this year.
Source: Bloomberg.com
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