More than 500 million OEM toner and inkjet cartridges are manufactured every year. If these cartridges are not diverted from our landfills, this equates to almost 1,000 tons of unnecessary pollution that can enter our waste stream every day. In addition to this potential waste, more than three quarts of oil are consumed during the manufacturing of every OEM cartridge. This equates to more than 375,000,000 gallons of oil consumed every year to make toner and inkjet cartridges. Even worse than these staggering atrocities is that many cartridges end up in cities like Guiyu, China where they are incinerated or dissolved with hazardous chemicals to extract residual metals. These processes contaminate the local air, soil and groundwater and one in ten children in Guiyu have birth defects due to this horrific pollution.

My Tech Guru uses only remanufacturers that use virgin cores, so that we can offer the highest quality laser toner cartridges at the most affordable prices. My Tech Guru imaging supplies are environmentally friendly. We conserve nature's resources by reusing certain non-wearing plastic shells and metal components from spent OEM cartridges. Despite the fact that we cannot remanufacture our own cartridges a second time, we highly encourage you to recycle the cartridges that you purchase from My Tech Guru.

Listed below are a few resources that you can use to recycle your spent toner cartridges.

1. TonerBuyer.com will pay you for your spent cartridges. Click Here to visit the TonerBuyer.com web site. TonerBuyer.com provides shipping labels to you at no charge.

2. Advantage Cartridge will pay you for your spent toner cartridges, inkjets, and even old cell phones. Click Here to visit the Advantage Cartridge web site. Advantage Cartridge provides shipping labels to you at no charge.

3. Recycle Place will pay you for your spent toner cartridges, inkjets, and even old cell phones. Click Here to visit the Recycle Place web site. Recycle Place provides shipping labels to you at no charge.

4. You can send your spent toner cartridges, inkjets, and old cell phones to Recycle for Charity to help support their list of supported charities. Click Here to visit the Recycle for Charity web site. Recycle for Charity provides shipping labels to you at no charge.

5. Although we can no longer supply pre-paid shipping labels due to our competitive pricing, you can send your spent toner cartridges, inkjets, and old cell phones (please do not include the battery) to the Recycling Center to help insure that your items will be recycled. Help us preserve our environment for generations to come. Please reduce, reuse and recycle.

Please ship your empty cartridges to:

Recycling Center
8201 Woodley Ave
Van Nuys, CA 91406

If you operate a recycling firm or charity, and would like your information included on this page, please Contact Us with your details. We will reply with our requirements for inclusion.