... Recycled Ink Jet Cartridges!
Now, I know that sounds supremely unexciting. But if you hadn't realized that recycling is a big deal yet, then you're kind of like those people who don't know what's going on with the economy, and those people are just a damn shame.
I know from personal experience that the mere thought of taking my old, useless printer cartridge all the way down to Staples (an absurdly un-horrifying twelve blocks) struck fear and laziness into my heart for nearly all of last semester. I even considered throwing the cartridges away - our course of action last year when we weren't quite sure of what was going on with this whole "ink cartridge recycling" notion.
The whole thing is pretty simple: your little baby cartridge gets taken with its myriad brothers and sisters to a plant where it gets disassembled (I can't vouch for any lack of pain here) and its components are used, along with those of its brethren, to make BRAND SHINY NEW INK CARTRIDGES. It's like they came out of nowhere!! Isn't that amazing! I mean, can you imagine the landfill buildup caused by those of us ignorant of this beautiful process? I'm sure big businesses and schools like mine go through tons of ink cartridges a day. I would really like to be able to know that those sad old cartridges were being used for something as glorious of out-of-nowhere-new-cartridge-making...
Check out the other recycling galleries and articles on TheGreenGuide.com for more moments of amazement!
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