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ink cartridge recycling

  • 17-09-2007 8:49pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747
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    can anyone explain exactly why there is so much focus on this one item? does it require an especially large amount of energy to make them (like aluminium stuff)? are there nasty chemicals that shouldn't go into landfill (like batteries)? do we use ridiculous numbers of them?

    im just curious why ink cartridges and not,for example, plastic drinks bottles instead?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,071 10-10-20
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    No, but to put it simply - profit margins.

    Markup on ink packs is immense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 Claytoon


    On a separate note, can anyone tell me where in Dublin can one recycle ink cartridges please? I have a half dozen empty Epson cartridges that I'd prefer not to send to landfill. Thanks in advance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 Paarse Krokodil
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    Claytoon wrote: »
    On a separate note, can anyone tell me where in Dublin can one recycle ink cartridges please? I have a half dozen empty Epson cartridges that I'd prefer not to send to landfill. Thanks in advance.

    If they have been empty for long they are most likely useless and fit for the dump (Civic amenity centre)

    otherwise try selling them to cartridge shops for 1 euro each.

    Printers are sold using the razor blade business model. Sometimes at a loss in the hope of recouping costs through cartridges, refilling is mostly for economic reasons. You can buy ink and a refill kit for feck all compared to the price of a cartridge


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 Claytoon


    Thanks Paarse


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 905 easychair
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    If they have been empty for long they are most likely useless and fit for the dump (Civic amenity centre)

    otherwise try selling them to cartridge shops for 1 euro each.

    Printers are sold using the razor blade business model. Sometimes at a loss in the hope of recouping costs through cartridges, refilling is mostly for economic reasons. You can buy ink and a refill kit for feck all compared to the price of a cartridge

    I have tried buying cartridges from cartridge shops but had to stop as the quality, when they worked ( many didn't work at all) was very poor.

    It's a shame as I love the idea of using the same cartridge a few times, but for some reason the cartridge shops don't seem to get it right.

    I bought a kit in Singapore a few years ago and was able to refill my cartridges with ink using a syringe. That worked well and I see tesco have similar kits available, although the needles for the syringes are cut off half way along the shaft! We live in such strange times that we can't be trusted with a normal syringe, it seems!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 Oldtree
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    I think tescos still recycle some and give a donation

    http://www.recyclingappeal.ie/tesco/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 Paarse Krokodil
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    easychair wrote: »
    I have tried buying cartridges from cartridge shops but had to stop as the quality, when they worked ( many didn't work at all) was very poor.

    It's a shame as I love the idea of using the same cartridge a few times, but for some reason the cartridge shops don't seem to get it right.

    I bought a kit in Singapore a few years ago and was able to refill my cartridges with ink using a syringe. That worked well and I see tesco have similar kits available, although the needles for the syringes are cut off half way along the shaft! We live in such strange times that we can't be trusted with a normal syringe, it seems!

    Unless you are a druggie then you're given the syringes for free


    I''ve seen those kits in Singapore. Dirt cheap, didn't think theyd be any good but ah well I hardly use inkjets anyway. I fill my own laser printer cartridges but tis still never as good as a new one - kind of gray around the edges


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 905 easychair
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    I''ve seen those kits in Singapore. Dirt cheap, didn't think theyd be any good

    You decided they wouldn't be any good by looking at them?


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