{"id":40696,"date":"2014-03-24T19:47:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=39481"},"modified":"2019-07-25T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:35:14","slug":"going-green-tips-2-key-ways-make-printing-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/going-green-tips-2-key-ways-make-printing-greener\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Green Tips: 2 Key Ways To Make Your Printing Greener"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
How many things have you printed in the past year?\u00a0Yikes, not fun to think about that, eh? Printing surely isn’t the greenest activity around, and if you’re like me, you probably feel guilty any time you print extras of anything and then they go to waste.\u00a0In this week’s “Going Green Tips<\/a>” post, I’ve got two tips for you that I think could help to “make your printing greener.” And, with one of those, I’ve got several sub-tips.<\/p>\n There are many services out there that allow you to use electronic documents or forms. You already know that, but you may not be aware of some of the things for which these exist. Here are some online forms and docs I use that might slip by you:<\/p>\n Now, if you have a printer, one of the key things you can do to use it in a greener way is to recycle the printer cartridges. An article on that topic<\/a> on Cartridges Direct<\/em><\/a> states that, in Australia alone, people threw away\u00a018 million printer cartridges in 2005. Yikes. Surely, that number has grown, and I’m also sure it’s much higher in the US. Printer cartridges are e-waste, and they should not be landing in landfills. “This is a staggering statistic, especially when you consider that the polymers used to make printer cartridges can take around 1000 years to decompose, all the while leaking dangerous toxins into the environment,” the article states.<\/p>\n Cartridges Direct<\/em> goes on to say how it helps to remanufacture and recycle printer cartridges. It also lists a number of places in Australia where you can recycle printer cartridges. In the US, Staples will give your $2 cash back<\/a> if you bring in your old ink or toner cartridges, HP will also give you cash back<\/a>, and I’m sure there are other such places that will do this for you.<\/p>\n This article was supported by\u00a0Cartridges Direct<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many things have you printed in the past year?\u00a0Yikes, not fun to think about that, eh? Printing surely isn’t the greenest activity around, and if you’re like me, you probably feel guilty any time you print extras of anything and then they go to waste.\u00a0In this week’s “Going Green Tips” post, I’ve got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,22,36,41],"tags":[10854,11679,15740,15745,17677,17707,18618,26141,26142,26147,26148,26149,26152,26153,26981,28431,28432,28433,28434,28435,28436,28437,28438,28439,29392,29394,29396,33145,33912,34298,35581],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_rpuplugin_enabled":["yes"],"pinterest_url":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-adv":["none"],"_wpas_done_all":["1"],"omc_review_enable":["0"],"omc_user_ratings_visibility":["0"],"omc_review_type":["stars"],"omc_criteria_display":["n"],"omc_featured_post":["1"],"omc_comment_type":["wp"],"_wpas_skip_5952913":["1"],"dsq_thread_id":["2502181743"],"apple_news_api_id":["54b499b5-5365-4d80-b340-8b9a24376cdb"],"apple_news_api_created_at":["2017-05-26T02:04:31Z"],"apple_news_api_modified_at":["2017-05-26T02:28:57Z"],"apple_news_api_share_url":["https:\/\/apple.news\/AVLSZtVNlTYCzQIuaJDds2w"],"apple_news_api_revision":["AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw=="],"penci_post_views_count":["1263"],"penci_post_week_views_count":["10"],"penci_post_month_views_count":["32"],"dpsp_networks_shares":["a:4:{s:8:\"facebook\";i:0;s:11:\"google-plus\";i:0;s:9:\"pinterest\";i:0;s:8:\"linkedin\";i:2;}"],"dpsp_networks_shares_total":["2"],"dpsp_networks_shares_last_updated":["1566920202"],"_edit_lock":["1564104922:189"],"_format_link_url":[""],"_format_quote_source_url":[""],"_format_quote_source_name":[""],"_format_audio_embed":[""],"_format_video_embed":[""],"_edit_last":["189"],"rank_math_news_sitemap_robots":["index"],"rank_math_robots":["a:2:{i:0;s:5:\"index\";i:1;s:4:\"none\";}"],"_uag_page_assets":["a:9:{s:3:\"css\";s:263:\".uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-desktop) !important}@media (max-width: 976px){.uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-tablet) !important}}@media (max-width: 767px){.uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-mobile) !important}}\n\";s:2:\"js\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"current_block_list\";a:4:{i:0;s:10:\"core\/image\";i:1;s:14:\"core\/paragraph\";i:2;s:12:\"core\/heading\";i:3;s:17:\"core\/latest-posts\";}s:8:\"uag_flag\";b:0;s:11:\"uag_version\";s:10:\"1714089639\";s:6:\"gfonts\";a:0:{}s:10:\"gfonts_url\";s:0:\"\";s:12:\"gfonts_files\";a:0:{}s:14:\"uag_faq_layout\";b:0;}"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"_uag_css_file_name":["uag-css-40696.css"]},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Sponsored Content","author_link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/author\/sponsoredcontent\/"},"uagb_comment_info":25,"uagb_excerpt":" How many things have you printed in the past year?\u00a0Yikes, not fun to think about that, eh? Printing surely isn’t the greenest activity around, and if you’re like me, you probably feel guilty any time you print extras of anything and then they go to waste.\u00a0In this week’s “Going Green Tips” post, I’ve got…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Use more electronic forms and documents<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n
Recycle Your Cartridges!<\/h2>\n