British communications company claims remanufactured cartridges are unreliable, are of poor quality and lack environmental benefits.
BT has updated its Business Blog with two discussions refuting 
the benefits of remanufactured cartridges over HP own-brand, with a third soon to be published.
The telecommunications company purports to compare OEM, remanufactured and compatible cartridges although concludes that HP cartridges are superior on reliability, quality and even price.
The blog hinges on information from a report previously covered by The Recycler, which claims that aftermarket cartridges feature a failure rate of 40 percent. The HP-commissioned report from Quality Logic claims to have tested cartridges from Sky Point, ARMOR and Pelikan among others and does not distinguish between results from clone and remanufactured cartridges.
BT also opted to conclude that original HP toner cartridges cost a mere £1.88 ($2.90/€2.38) above aftermarket prices on the basis of a short-term cashback offer on purchasing multiple HP toner cartridges.
More alarming, BT claims that aftermarket cartridges do not feature environmental benefits on the basis of information received from HP. The blog claims that “94 percent of remanufactured cartridges will ultimately be thrown away”, whilst stipulating that “many remanufacturers prefer to work with cartridges that have never been remanufactured before – meaning most print cartridges are only remanufactured once”.
BT is also keen to extoll the OEM’s cartridge-shredding Planet Partners scheme, and celebrated the ease of use and heightened environmental benefits over aftermarket products.