A few years ago, it was still impossible to reuse an ink cartridge for a printer when it was empty. Nowadays it is possible and so much better for the environment! Indeed, it is now possible, in several private businesses, to perform a refill for your ink cartridge either hp or cannon. You can repeat it 10 times with the same ink cartridge. After the tenth time, it is preferable to purchase a new ink cartridge.
Regrettably, it is very rare that retail trades have an option concerning the refills for your ink cartridges. These sales clerks are too much busy taking about the advantage of buying a new cartridge and do not seem to want to set up a recycling system (because they would lose great incomes of sale).
The industry of ink cartridges for printers with ink jet does not appreciate this new system of recycling either. Some months ago, they decided to increase the price of the ink cartridges on the market. And so, the consumers buy less and less cartridges. Nevertheless, there should be a counter effect because there is now too many ink cartridges in stores. These ink cartridge could be easily sold if their price were lower.
Beside this inconvenience, consumers quickly understood that they made enormous savings by refilling their empty ink cartridge by shopping in businesses which have a filling and recycling option. By aiming at the environment before the economy, all the actions of those who recycle their ink cartridge will manage to convince big companies, that create these same cartridges, to lower their price and invest in recycling!