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Published on December 12th, 2007

Students Collect, Recycle Printer Cartridges

Boston’s WCVB features the recycling efforts of Luce Elementary School in Canton, which has been recycling ink jet cartridges for more than a year to raise money and help the environment.

The school is able to make between 50 cents and $10 for cartridges, which are then remanufactured, recycled and refilled with ink. The students decided on this project after realizing that 350 million cartridges end up in landfills every year.

For more ideas on how your school can get involved in an environmental project, visit Earth 911’s student section.

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