Staples to Reward Customers for Recycling Ink and Toner Cartridges

Published January 25, 2009

Tags: Business Operations, Resource Efficiency, More... Business Operations, Resource Efficiency, Supply Chain

Next month, Staples will become the first national retailer to reward customers for recycling any brand of ink or toner cartridge.

The office supply company will give patrons $3 in Staples Rewards for recycling cartridges instead of throwing them away. Staples expects to recycle 30 million cartridges in 2009 and become the world's largest ink and toner recycler as a result of its new program.

Customers can bring up to 10 cartridges per month in exchange for Staples Rewards, which can be used for any Staples purchase. Rewards are given out monthly

Staples' new recycling program isn't the first for the company—in 2008, Staples recycled 4 million pounds of electronic waste. The store's current recycling programs include cell phones, PDAs, computers, and office technology.

Ariel Schwartz is a blogger for GreenBiz.com and the editor of Cleantechnica.com. A graduate of Vassar College, she has previously worked in marketing, organic farming, and newspaper journalism.

Ink Recycling

Anonymous, March 26, 2009 - 16:08

On 2/2/09 At 4:55pm I turned in 10 ink cartriges.
Today is 3/26/09 and still have not received my
reward of $30.00.
Rewards Number is 3633337393. Please check.
Thank You
JJK

This is NOT a program expansion

Anonymous, February 25, 2009 - 14:22

Please notice that Staples has been promoting this to look like it’s now an all-encompassing program and is very subtly inserting the detail that you can now ONLY EARN MONEY ON TEN INKJETS A MONTH. Whereas before a school could earn around $270 (3 per day) per month, now Staples is limiting them to $30.

Everyone has taken the Staples press release hook, line and sinker without noticing that Staples is actually not expanding the program at all. It is drastically cutting the monthly value that people can earn at Staples.

Staples to reward customers for recycling...

Anonymous, January 31, 2009 - 14:54

wow, wish I knew about this a few weeks ago...

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