Ink and Toner Recycling for Businesses Nationwide
Laser toner and inkjet cartridge recycling for offices, schools, and businesses across all 50 states, with material recovery handled at our R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas.
- Laser Toner & Inkjet Cartridges Accepted
- Secure, Transparent, Sustainable Processing
- Free pickup for qualifying business volumes
One collection program for every printer and copier in your office
STS Electronic Recycling accepts laser toner and inkjet cartridges from offices, schools, and businesses across all 50 states, recovering the plastics, metals, and components inside instead of landfilling them. Office and facilities managers use the same pickup to clear out a supply closet of spent cartridges alongside other retired electronics, instead of managing two separate vendors.
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Why Businesses Recycle Cartridges Through STS
A used ink or toner cartridge is largely reusable material, not waste: mostly plastic housing and metal components, with a small amount of residual toner or ink. Left in the trash, that housing and hardware sit in a landfill instead of being separated and recovered. Recycling recovers those materials instead of burying them.
Per its own Electronics Stewardship program, the EPA directs its facilities to recycle used batteries and toner cartridges from printers and copiers, the same basic practice STS makes available to businesses nationwide. Schools, healthcare systems, law firms, and financial institutions all generate a steady stream of retired cartridges alongside their other office electronics.
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Part of a Larger Program
Cartridge collection can run alongside a broader IT asset disposition (ITAD) program for outgoing computers, printers, and networking equipment, so your office consolidates every retirement into one pickup.
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Documented Handling for Data-Bearing Devices
Cartridges themselves hold no data, but for offices retiring printers, copiers, or drives at the same time, serial-number-specific certificates of destruction are available for those devices.
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Hard Drives & Data-Bearing Devices
Many of the printers and copiers that generate cartridge waste also hold onboard storage. Our hard drive destruction service covers those devices separately, alongside cartridge recycling.
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Value Recovery on Retiring Equipment
When a cartridge pickup coincides with retiring functional computers or other hardware, our computer liquidation service assesses that equipment for resale value.
What Other Office Electronics Does STS Recycle?
STS Electronic Recycling processes computers, laptops, servers, monitors, phones, tablets, networking gear, batteries, printers, copiers, and legacy electronics alongside ink and toner cartridges, covering the full range of equipment found in a modern workplace.
Computing Equipment
Mobile & Network
A cartridge program backed by an enterprise-scale operation
Cartridge recycling runs through the same facilities and reporting systems that support our full IT asset disposition program.
*In the most recent full reporting period.
The standards behind our recycling process
Our certifications and management systems govern how cartridges and other retired office electronics are processed once they reach our facilities.
Secure Recycling
Secure, transparent, sustainable processing standards guide how materials are separated, tracked, and recovered at our facilities.
RIOS Certified
STS holds RIOS certification, and ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 held through the RIOS-integrated management system, company-wide.
BBB A+ & Inc. 5000
BBB A+ accredited since January 2012, and a three-time Inc. 5000 honoree (2018 No. 3,463; 2020 No. 3,436; 2021 No. 2,367).
How Does Ink and Toner Cartridge Recycling Work?
STS Electronic Recycling processes ink and toner cartridges through a four-step workflow, from scheduling through material recovery and reporting. Procurement and facilities teams typically prefer bundling cartridge pickup with other retiring electronics, keeping reporting and vendor management under one relationship.
Consolidate & Schedule
Box up cartridges as they accumulate, and schedule a pickup that fits your office, alone or alongside other retired electronics.
Collection & Pickup
We coordinate pickup and transport to our processing facilities on a schedule that works for your office.
Sorting & Material Recovery
Cartridges are sorted by type, and the plastics, metals, and other components inside are separated for recycling.
Recycling Summary
Receive a recycling summary confirming your cartridges were processed rather than landfilled.
What offices ask first about cartridge recycling
Everything you need to know about recycling ink and toner cartridges through STS.
What actually happens to a recycled cartridge?
Cartridges are sorted by type, and the plastic housing, metal components, and other recoverable materials are separated out for recycling instead of going to a landfill.
Do you accept both laser toner and inkjet cartridges?
Yes. We accept laser toner cartridges and inkjet cartridges from office printers, copiers, and multifunction devices.
Can cartridge recycling be added to an existing pickup?
Yes. Cartridge collection can be bundled with pickup of other retired office electronics, such as computers, printers, and networking equipment, in a single visit.
Is there a cost for pickup?
Free pickup is available for qualifying business volumes. Ask about your specific volume when you call or submit the form on this page.
What documentation do we receive?
You'll receive a recycling summary for your cartridges. For any data-bearing devices retired at the same time, serial-number-specific certificates of destruction are available separately.
Do you accept remanufactured or compatible cartridges?
Yes. We recycle remanufactured and compatible cartridges the same way we handle original equipment manufacturer cartridges.
Still Have Questions?
Our team is ready to talk through your office's cartridge and electronics recycling needs.
Where Your Equipment Is Processed
STS Electronic Recycling, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Texas, and has served schools, businesses, healthcare systems, and government agencies across all 50 states since 2010.
Equipment collected nationwide is staged locally and transported to one of our two R2v3 certified processing facilities in Jacksonville, Texas and Houston, Texas, where all data destruction and material recovery takes place.
The Certificate of Destruction, issued on completion, lists each device by serial number with the sanitization method recorded against it.
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Nationwide capacity for offices retiring cartridges alongside other electronics, from a single box to a multi-site consolidation.
