Environmental company Planet Ark and print cartridge recylcer, Close the Loop, have teamed up to recycle the 5,000 tonnes of print cartridges that are currently dumped as landfill every year in Australia. The initiative is known as Cartridges for Planet Ark and provides recycling boxes around the country to encourage people to starve landfill sites of the 34 cartridges that are thrown out, every minute. Despite the inefficiencies of recycling when compared to re-use, the printer companies backing the initiative point out that recycling the resources in the cartridges is more environmentally friendly than throwing them out.
