Recycling for fun and HP's profit

I had to do it at some point. So today I replaced all the toner cartridges in my printer. It’s been moaning for a while abut low toner and today I noticed that the print quality was getting patchy. I can’t complain too much, because the low capacity free cartridges did last quite a long time.

I thought I’d try and recycle them. This turned out to be quite easy. HP has a site where you can go to print out a postage label. Then you just bundle the cartridge boxes up, stick on the label and drop the package off a the Post Office. This is good news for the planet, and even better news for HP who can put fifty pence worth of toner in them and then sell them again for sixty quid. It would be nice is there was a formal scheme where you got discount on replacement cartridges if you’ve sent back the old ones, but I’ve not seen anything like that just yet.