How should the used toner cartridge be recycled?

There are a lot of used consumables. If counted in numbers, the number of printer supplies exhausted worldwide each year is a very conservative estimate.

Some people want to throw away the toner cartridges directly, but they have to give up because they are worried about polluting the environment.

It is few manufacturers recycle used toner cartridges. If they recycle them, they will occupy the place in the recycling station.and the toner cartridges are updated faster.

Recycling is a big problem

Who should recycle the toner cartridge, and what harm will it cause if it is not recycled?

When talking to the toner sales company, we learned that after the toner cartridge is recycled, it is added with toner, which has a certain volatility. The used toner cartridge has a large amount of residual powder residue. If it is directly exposed to the air, the residual powder residue may be volatilized into the air and enter the human body through the respiratory system, causing harm to the human body. Moreover, the used toner cartridges also contain a certain amount of heavy metals, which may also penetrate into the soil, causing soil pollution.

This brings the question: how to recycle and reuse? Canberra, Australia gives a new idea.

  After the adoption of the carbon footprint bill, the requirements for environmental protection are becoming more and more strict. Australia is no exception. A large number of toner cartridges are recycled every year. Plastic parts and metal parts are generally recycled and reused. However, there may be some toner in them, and the particles are very small. It is definitely not environmentally friendly when discharged directly into the environment. Canberra's plan is: repair the road.

Everyone knows how to repair the road, using asphalt. Canberra's approach is to add non-toner toner to the asphalt of the road. According to reports, 0.5% of the asphalt used for paving this test is from the residual toner in the recycled toner cartridge. It is said that after the incorporation of carbon powder, the temperature of the asphalt is 40 degrees lower (possibly Fahrenheit) than before. This is seen as a win-win result: the recycled toner has a place to go, and the cost of paving the road is lower because of the lower temperature required for the asphalt.

In this test, 2.2 tons of recovered toner was used to blend into 164 tons of asphalt. It is said that in the future it is possible to consider increasing the proportion of blending to a higher proportion of toner consumption. Canberra has laid 750,000 square meters of asphalt roads in the past 6 months, so it doesn't matter how to deal with the toner in the toner cartridges!