Recycle Your Empty Ink & Toner Cartridges with Stinkyink
At Stinkyink, we believe in reducing waste and giving printer cartridges a second life. Whether your empty cartridges can be refilled and reused or need to be recycled into raw materials, we’ve made it easy for you to dispose of them responsibly.
Recycling your cartridges helps reduce landfill waste, conserve resources, and protect our planet—and it’s simple to do!
Join Us in Reducing Printer Waste!
By choosing to refill, reuse, or recycle your ink and toner cartridges, you’re making a real impact. Whether you use our Freepost Recycling Scheme, send your cartridges directly to us, or opt for a manufacturer’s scheme, every little effort helps create a waste-free future.
💚 Thank you for choosing Stinkyink and helping to protect our planet!
How to Recycle Your Ink & Toner Cartridges:
Freepost Recycling Scheme
Check if You Have a Freepost Recycling Bag
Some cartridges can be reused and refilled, if your cartridges fit into this category, we will include a recycling bag in with your order.
Once they are empty, simply pop your used cartridge(s) in the envelope and post them to our recycling partners will take care of the rest.
Please avoid sending any packaging with your return. Only your ink cartridges themselves can be recycled by our partners.
Stinkyink Recycling Scheme
Didn’t Receive a Freepost Bag? Send Your Cartridges to Us!
If you didn’t get a recycling bag, you can still send your cartridges to us for recycling.
StinkyInk Recycling
Building 6, Unit 3
Stanmore Business Park
Bridgnorth, Shropshire
WV15 5HR
🚨 Please note: This scheme is NOT Freepost. While we cover the recycling costs, we kindly ask you to cover the postage.
Got a Large Box of Cartridges?
If you have a bulk amount of ink cartridges, we recommend sending them directly to zero waste recycling, our trusted recycling partner.
Recycling Ink Bottles
Ink bottles (original or compatible) can go in your regular household recycling bin.
♻️ Since they contain no electrical components, they can be recycled just like other plastics. We recommend rinsing out any remaining ink first before recycling.
Zero Waste Recycling
StinkyInk has partnered with Zero Waste Recycling to provide recycling for our products. They accept a wide range of items including ink cartridges, laser cartridges, toner bottles, imaging units, drum units, fuser units, transfer belts, and waste toner bottles.
Why Recycling Matters: The Plastic Waste Crisis
- 🌊 10 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans every year—that’s like dumping a bin lorry of waste every minute.
- 🐟 By 2050, there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish unless we act now.
- 📈 Plastic production has soared from 2 million tonnes in 1950 to over 450 million tonnes annually today.
- 🗺️ The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now three times the size of France—and growing every day.
- By recycling your printer consumables, you’re helping to reduce waste, conserve resources, and keep plastic out of our oceans.
Prefer to Recycle with Your Printer Manufacturer?
- Many printer brands offer their own recycling programs for original (OEM) cartridges.
- ⚠️ Important: Manufacturer schemes only accept original cartridges, and you must send them to the correct brand (e.g., HP cartridges go to HP’s scheme).
- We’ve compiled a list of available manufacturer recycling programs, and we update it regularly to keep the details current.
Brother Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Ink cartridges, toner cartridges, printers, label rolls.
Brother have one of the simplest recycling schemes available. Visit the link below, fill in the relevant recycling form and they'll send you a pre-labeled envelope to post your item back in. The scheme supports both Inkjet and Toner recycling, as well as Brother printers, so there's no reason not to use it.
Canon Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Ink cartridges, toner cartridges, ink bottles.
Canon's cartridge recycling scheme has been around since 1990 and accepts a limited selection of Toners and Inks. Visit the link below, select your type of cartridge and check the cartridges you want to use are accepted in the scheme. You'll need at least 5 cartridges to use the scheme, otherwise it's easy peasy.
Epson Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Ink cartridges, toner cartridges
Epson have a scheme designed around how many printers you own. Supporting both single-printer owners and those with over 10 Epson machines, you can even recycle from the large format Epson printers. Have your Epson printer model to hand and you're good to go.
HP and Samsung Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Ink cartridges, toner cartridges, print heads, ink bottles.
HP now owns Samsung so if you have cartridges for Samsung printers HP can help. This scheme allows you to recycle just one cartridge at a time instead of having to stockpile them if you're a home user, or arrange bulk returns for bigger businesses.
Konica Minolta Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner cartridges
Konica Minolta provide a free recycling service for their toner cartridges, but not for any other consumables at the moment such as drums.
Kyocera Mita Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner cartridges.
Kyocera Mita provide freepost details in the packaging of any genuine toner/waste bottle you purchase, so you should already have the details you need. All that's left to do is filling in a form at the below page to request an RMA code.
Lexmark Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Ink cartridges, Toner cartridges, Printers
Lexmark have a cartridge collection program found at the below link for different sized businesses. It boils down to different sized boxes you store your empty cartridges in before arranging a collection. If you're looking to recycle ink cartridges, each time you purchase a Lexmark original you will find freepost details included in the box!
Oki Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: All genuine OKI Original consumables e.g. Toner cartridges, Imaging drums, Fuser Units, Transfer Belts, Waste Bottles, Ribbons.
Oki enable you to recycle pretty much anything and everything that goes into your printer. You can select either a freepost service for returns up to 5kg or weight, or heavier users can opt for an equally-free recycling bin programme.
OKI Cartridge Recycling
Panasonic Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner cartridges
Panasonic provide freepost recycling details in all of their genuine toner packaging so you should already have the details you need. If you misplace them you can request more freepost details at their link below.
Pitney Bowes Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: ink cartridges
Pitney Bowes provide easy to follow instructions for you to recycle your franking machine ink cartridges with them!
Ricoh Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner cartridges
Recycling cartridges in the UK through Ricoh is a lot easier than it used to be. Previously it cost you upwards of £30 per box of cartridges! Now you can just register at the below link to get access to freepost details, far more environmentally (and financially) friendly.
HP and Samsung Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner cartridges
HP now owns Samsung so if you have cartridges for Samsung printers HP can help. This scheme allows you to recycle just one cartridge at a time instead of having to stockpile them if you're a home user, or arrange bulk returns for bigger businesses.
Samsung (now HP) Cartridge Recycling
Sharp Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner and consumables.
Sharp provide bags with their toners for you to pop your used toners in, then all you will need to do is box your items using the size guide on their website and send it off to them! They have an easy recycling form to fill in and submit your request. You can find all the information for this here.
Xerox Printer Cartridge Recycling
Accepts: Toner cartridges
Xerox's "Green World Alliance" gives you free recycling for your toner cartridges. Simply visit the link, select your relevant printer and consumables and you'll get easy and clear instructions to start recycling.
