Recycle HP ink and toner cartridges

Use pre-addressed, postage-paid recycling envelopes and labels and drop your used cartridges in the mail.

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With the free and easy-to-use HP Planet Partners program—available in more than 50 countries and territories around the world—you can recycle your empty Original HP ink and toner cartridges in the following ways:²

• Use the pre-addressed, postage-paid recycling envelopes and labels available online and in all toner cartridge packaging.²
• Return large quantities of used Original HP cartridges easily by requesting a free bulk collection box or pallet pickup.²
• Return used Original HP cartridges to HP authorized retail collection locations.²

While HP accepts nearly every Original HP ink and toner cartridge for recycling, some supplies cannot be recycled through the HP Planet Partners program.² Find out which products are not accepted for recycling.

Get shipping labels, request a pickup, and discover more about HP’s recycling efforts.

Recycled supplies are reduced to raw materials to make new Original HP products.

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No Original HP cartridges returned through HP Planet Partners are ever sent to a landfill, and HP never refills or resells cartridges:

• Recycled printer cartridges are reduced to raw materials to make new products. Any remaining material is disposed of or handled responsibly through energy recovery.
• HP reduces packaging and uses recycled materials whenever possible to limit the amount of new materials it uses to package and ship products.
• HP high-capacity XL cartridges require fewer cartridge and packaging materials per printed page, than standard Original HP cartridges.

Discover the benefits of using Original HP ink and toner cartridges.

HP “closed loop” ink cartridge recycling process was the first of its kind.

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HP is committed to reducing the environmental impact of its products:

• Original HP cartridges are manufactured at facilities certified under ISO 14001, an internationally recognized standard of environmental management systems.
• The HP “closed loop” ink cartridge recycling process combines used HP ink cartridges with recycled plastic bottle materials to create new HP ink cartridges.
• According to a 2010 life-cycle assessment, using recycled plastic—over new plastic—in Original HP ink cartridges has a reduced environmental impact in all areas studied—including water use and carbon footprint.³

In 2010, HP used 19.6 million pounds of recycled plastic as raw material in the manufacturing of new Original HP cartridges, keeping 490 tractor-trailer loads of plastic from going to landfills.