Ink Cartridges and chip technology

Ink Cartridges and chip technology

It appears that the large printer manufacturers are researching chip technology to try and prevent ink cartridges being refilled.

This is even more bad news for consumers and the environment.

A vast majority of ink and laser cartridges can be refilled (remanufactured) using the appropriate ink or toner specified for those cartridges. This process is completely legal, saves the customer money and in no way “damages” the printer.

More importantly, to a growing number of people, though is the fact that by re-using these cartridges it means that they are not being dumped in land fill sites. Most recycling centres around the country have no facilities to recycle ink or laser cartridges, which means that empty cartridges are being thrown away with the rest of our rubbish. The educated guess is that they will take approximately 400 years to break down to waste. With it being estimated that 75% of all households now own at least one printer it doesn’t take a genius to work out that those figures do not look good for our planet.

If these large companies continue to try and block the remanufacturing market are they not working directly against government directive to promote recycling!!