| We've all heard and learned the mantra of the | | | | forget that they'll be hanging around a long time, too. |
| environmentally conscious - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." | | | | Next, those things are made out of some good stuff. |
| How many of use actually follow it as closely as we | | | | I'm talking nonrenewable stuff that once it's gone, it's |
| could? What's the first thing that comes to mind | | | | gone forever. Then there's the energy used to make |
| when you run out of printer ink? Throw that old | | | | the things. It takes a lot of electricity to run a |
| thing away and get a new one, right? WRONG!! | | | | factory, if you know what I mean. Lastly, there's the |
| Throwing an old ink cartridge in the trash is possibly | | | | waste of good old fashioned money. Yep, it really |
| one of the worst things you can do to your dear old | | | | does pay to recycle, at least where ink and toner |
| Mother Earth. First, those things take up room. And | | | | cartridges are concerned. |
| there's a lot of them out there, believe me. Let's not | | | | |