Ink cartridges are recyclable, which is great news for the planet. It takes almost a gallon of oil to make a single laser printer cartridge and, after they’re used and thrown away, ink cartridges ...

The plastic used in manufacturing inkjet toner cartridges is made up of engineering-grade polymer plastics, which can take more than 1,000 years to decompose. Although no federal or state laws exist ...

Printer toner has been around since 1969. The first laser printer for commercial use appeared in 1976, and the first mass-market laser printer bumped off the dot-matrix printer in 1984. Today, ...

These days, when we’re off to the supermarket, the shopping list might just as likely include “printer ink or toner” as milk, bread or toilet paper. Between reports for the office, kids’ homework ...

Every year about 350 million ink and toner cartridges are dumped in landfills in North America, but a Stamford business and the city's Solid Waste/Recycling Division are working together to reduce ...

Last month, when Costco closed in-store photo shops, taking the company’s photo development business entirely online, Ventura County also lost an important environmental service. Those photo shops ...

Single-use printer cartridges are expensive, wasteful, and hard to recycle. Now one major U.S. city is weighing a move that could change how printers are sold.