Harvard University is encouraging its students to become an active part in the remanufacturing process by providing ink and toner cartridge recycling points across the university’s campus.
In collaboration with OfficeMax, an American office supplies retailer, the Harvard University Office for Sustainability is asking students to deposit all of their used cartridges in cardboard boxes across the campus. Alternatively students can hand their unwanted cartridges to OfficeMax delivery drivers.
Local company Roxbury Technology will then take the collected cartridges and remanufacture them.
A spokesperson for Harvard University Office for Sustainability said in a statement, “Without a doubt, there are both environmental and the cost-saving benefits involved in purchasing remanufactured toner cartridges. In fact, many of the toner cartridges that you recycle will be remanufactured into like-new toner cartridges – thereby saving all of the materials and resources that are involved in constructing the plastic cartridges from scratch.”
For more information please contact sustainability@hms.harvard.edu.