How to Recycle Brother Cartridges

Throwing spent Brother cartridges away with normal garbage adds difficult-to-break down and hazardous waste materials to landfills, resulting in a negative environmental and health impact. With that in mind, Brother International created a toner, ink and used consumable product disposal environmental program that recycles toner, ink, drum and P-touch tape cartridges through reuse, remanufacturing and/or waste-to-energy conversion. The program is free and Brother cartridge users only need to return ship Brother cartridges via the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) using prepaid merchandise return labels.

Things You'll Need

• Original cartridge carton
• Plastic bags (optional)
• Plain cardboard or USPS shipping box (optional)
• Packing tape
• Scissors
• Vacuum (optional)
• Water (optional)
• Microfiber cloth (optional)

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Instructions

• 1

  Place your Brother cartridge in its original carton. If you don't have the original carton, wrap the cartridge with a plastic bag to prevent ink or toner leakage (if applicable) and pack it in a plain cardboard or USPS shipping box approximately the same size of your original carton. Seal the box with clear packing tape.

• 2

  Print out the "Brother USPS Prepaid Merchandise Return Labels" page (see Resources) and then cut out a label with scissors. Fill out the "From" address lines with your information and then tape the label to the carton or box.

• 3

  Drop the carton or box off at your local USPS branch location or into a USPS mail drop bin.