What’s The Best Way To Recycle A Printer?

There are a lot of different ways to recycle a printer, but not all of them are the best choice. The three R’s of conservation are recycle, reduce, and reuse, but reducing and reusing have a much better impact on the planet than recycling. Since you can’t exactly reduce a printer, that leaves reusing, which is the best way to get rid of your printer.

Recycling a printer uses valuable resources to take it apart and melt all of the plastic down so that it can be used as something else. Sending a printer to a recycling facility is a much better choice than tossing it in the landfill, but it’s not the best choice. Also, most computer recyclers will usually take whatever parts out of it that are still working and resell them.

Who should you give your old printer to? I recommend starting close to you. Start with family, like your grandma, little sister, or cousins. If there isn’t anyone there who can take it, check with neighbors and coworkers. You may have to put a new ink cartridge in it and do the installation, but helping out someone close to you is extremely rewarding.

Other places to donate your old printer to are schools, local non profit organizations, retirement centers, and libraries. These places are usually set up to take donations, so they can also give you a receipt that will allow you to make a tax deduction from your charitable contribution.

Printers are nasty little devices that make some serious pollution when tossed into the landfill. Taking them to be recycled is great, but it’s so much better when you can help out someone close to you or in your community instead. Printer recycling is a very rewarding task, and allows you to make a difference in someone else’s life without doing much work at all!