HP Also Recycles Its Cartridges

It can be easy to recycle anything that can be useful to more ways than one. There are also stuffs that you might thought of recycling but don't know where to start with. Empty bottles, old newspapers, thin cans and plastic containers of all sorts, these things can definitely be reuse by recycling. But do you have an idea what happens to these things once you disposed of them.

HP as one of the leading printer brand manufacturer has a global recycling plant located in Smyrna, Tennessee. This recycling plant allow their customers to return empty laser toner cartridges or ink cartridges instead of just throwing them. An option that the environment, the manufacturer and the consumers benefit from. HP inkjet cartridges consumers can get in-store discounts from returning their empty ink cartridges. While giving discounts and helping out the environment is totally a great deal for the manufacturers.

If you are curious on how they tear down your empty cartridges into small parts and pieces that they use to rebuild new ink cartridges, here's a fascinating overview to the workflow of HP's recycling plant.

There are three simple stages and human interventions are always involved on the process: 

First is Receiving,  in this process, HP gathers all the returned empty cartridges from different places. Large boxes with sealed envelopes are then located around the receiving area. 

Next to the process is Sorting, this is where all the received empty cartridges goes. Most of the sorting process are done either by Automatic or by Semi-Manual method. Those cartridges that comes from sealed boxes that needs to be open undergo semi-manual method, while the rest directly goes to the automatic sorting process. Each cartridge is precisely analyzed via laser to separate from the other cartridges and determine the model to organize the empty cartridges for the last stage.

The last stage of the process is Recycling, there are a lot of methods in this process since HP deals with various types of ink cartridges. One of these is shredding, and literally it shreds all the cartridges that meets the requirement. Cartridges constructed from Polyethylene Terephthalate which are more intricate, undergo a more complicated process of disassembling. I will not tackle further the details of disassembling. But there are also cartridges that due to their size and shape, can't go through the process of disassembling and are simply demanufactured.

Once the cartridges gone through these three stages, they will be wash and clean before transporting them. But the process doesn't end there, it still needs to go through a long way of combining them with local plastics from other HP's sources to be able to create a new HP cartridge.

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