When trying to figure out how to recycle old printers, there are a lot of places to choose from. Some choices are better than others, but any choice you make is a good one since you are keeping your old printer from the landfill. Printers, like CPU’s and monitors, have nasty chemicals in their construction that leech into landfills, doing damage far beyond our years on this planet. Let’s take a look at a couple of places that do printer recycling, and which one is the best.
The printer companies want you to send your old printers back to them. Generally, they will charge you a few bucks for this service, which doesn’t make any sense at all. Maybe I just have it in for the printer companies for all of the times I had to by toner, but even so, this isn’t the best choice. I have a feeling that they will take your printer from you (after charging you to accept it), then refurbish it and resell it. I don’t know this for fact, but it makes a lot of sense for them to do it! See our post on printer cartridge recycling for a similar way that they gouge you.
A better choice is to find a local ecycling place. Some of these will even pay you to recycle your old printer! These electronics recycling centers aren’t everywhere, but most major cities will have a few to choose from. Also, some large companies will host days for their community to bring their old electronics to recycle, and they’ll take care of it from there. If you don’t have an electronics recycling company in your area, some companies work completely online and will give you free shipping to send them all of your stuff.
Most of the time, they won’t recycle your old stuff. Instead, they will donate, sell, or refurbish it. This is great for them as a company, and good for the environment since the resources aren’t needed to process the printer during recycling.
Recycling old printers is a great way to do your part to help protect the environment. It’s just a matter of finding the right place to send it!
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