USA Empty Printer Cartridge Recycling Guide

Epson

Epson can recycle your empty inkjet cartridges, but requires you to cover the cost of postage. They also offer a free collection programme for their AcuLaser CX11N Series cartridges.

Hewlett Packard (HP)

HP have free services for their entire range of cartridges. You can drop off your empties at a retail store, print off a postage-paid label, request free collection boxes or arrange a pickup.

Lexmark

Lexmark offer free postage-paid labels for toner/laser cartridges, and will send you postage-paid bags to return your ink cartridges.

Recycle Lexmark cartridges

Canon

Canon allow return of empty toner/laser cartridges by printing off a postage-paid UPS label.

Recycle Canon toner/laser cartridges

Canon inkjet cartridges can be returned by dropping them off at one of over 1,600 FedEx Office Print & Ship Centers.

Recycle Canon ink cartridges

For customers wishing to make a return from Hawaii, Alaska or a U.S. Territory, please contact 1-800-OK-CANON.

Brother

Brother runs a free service to return your toner and ink cartridges through USPS using printable postage-paid labels.

N.B. You are not required to tick the box saying that Brother may contact you in the future.

Dell

Dell no longer offers a postal return service for their ink and toner cartridges. Please try the other options in this cartridge recycling guide.

Samsung

HP now handle the recycling of Samsung cartridges. They take back their ink and toner cartridges with pre-paid USPS labels that you can print. If you use large quantities of cartridges they can also offer free collection boxes to store your empties in.

Xerox

Xerox offer free postal return for most of their cartridges, or pallet collections for larger numbers.

Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta accept returns of cartridges for some of their printers and office systems through pre-paid UPS labels that you can print online, as well as pallet collections for larger quantities. They can offer you free collection boxes to store your empty cartridges in if you have many.

Oki

Oki used to offer a free service to return cartridges by dropping them off at a return location. You will need to contact them directly to see if they can offer you this service on your contract.

Kyocera Mita

Customers can request — free of charge — recycling boxes from their authorized Kyocera dealer. Fill the boxes with depleted and waste Kyocera toner containers, seal and send to our recycling facility partner, Close the Loop.

Ricoh

Many Ricoh cartridges come with a pre-paid shipping label for returns included in the box, which you can use to return your empty cartridge. If this isn't the case, you can download a prepaid shipping label on the web site from the instructions half-way down the page.

Neopost

Neopost used to offer a free recycling service, where you paid the shipping to their recycling facility in Tennessee. The page has been taken down, but you can contact Neopost (now "Quadient") on the above page to enquire.

Panasonic

Panasonic do not currently seem to have a recycling option.

Pitney Bowes

Get your label to return a used Pitney Bowes cartridge to the manufacturer for free.

Sharp

Sharp cartridges can be recycled at any Staples store, or Sharp can send you a recycling kit with collection boxes including pre-paid shipping labels to return them free of charge.

Kodak

Kodak cartridges can be returned to any Staples or Walmart store.

Toshiba

Toshiba provide a paid-for recycling program through their dealer network, but there are plenty of free alternatives that also take any other brands of cartridge also — look for alternatives below.