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Picture this: a triangular-shaped symbol made up of green arrows feeding into one another. Can you picture it? Of course you can – the recycling symbol is everywhere these days. Mother Earth has been more than patient with us, as we have polluted her beautiful landscape relentlessly for the past 200 years by building non-biodegradable products, sent smokestacks soaring into the sky, and dumped tons and tons of products into landfills around the world.

Take ink toners, for example. Estimates say that almost 400 million of these things go into landfills every year. Granted they are small – often about the mass of a common male wallet – but they are made up of complex and non-environmentally friendly materials. This does not bode well for our world to keep dumping these into the earth.

Fortunately, there are recycling programs all over the place for ink cartridges. Take HP ink – recycling services are available from HP itself, as well as retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Office Max, Office Depot, Staples, and many others. Many manufacturers are generally supportive of cartridge recycling programs because it can help them to save money on raw materials. Most will offer a small rebate on future cartridges if you bring your old ones in.

HP ink recycling is not the only service available to those who want to help the environment. In fact, all major brands of printers and their accessories can be brought back to recycling depots for processing. So when you are holding your empty shell of a toner cartridge in your hand, after it has outlived its usefulness to you, just imagine 400 million of its friends being launched into a giant landfill. Not so pleasant, is it? Well, don’t fret… just head to the retailer where you may have purchased it and ask about their recycling program.