Innovative Recycling was created to meet the specialized needs of recycling laser printer cartridges for customers who share our passion for environmental stewardship.  We are committed to a zero land fill philosophy with maximum reuse of all raw materials.  Our unique decommissioning process meets this requirement in a safe and environmentally friendly way.

The Goal

Environmental Stewardship, has always been one of the real selling points to the business of remanufacturing laser cartridges. After all, the best way to recycle anything is to simply reuse 
it again for its intended use.  The only problem with this theme is that sometimes cartridges are 
simply worn out and can not be reused. 

The Problem
Most companies are very interested in closing the loop for the non reuse cartridges by using 
some type of raw material recovery process instead of sending them to the landfill. The problem 
is that toner dust presents an all too familiar explosion hazard for typical shredding and separation processes. It is also very expensive to adequately capture nuisance toner dust if the process is manual.

Innovative Recycling is Created

Several years ago Innovative Recycling (a division of Innovative Applications Corporation) in El Paso, won a competition from one of the major laser printer companies to develop a process designed to solve this problem and meet its recycling needs.  The result led to a unique, and very cost effective process that is now recycling 1,500,000 pounds of laser cartridges per month for several printer brands.  The process yields clean and pure streams of separated plastics and metals ready for reuse in other products   

The Process

The totally automated system essentially processes everything under a liquid.  This solves the 
need for inert environments and expensive dust collection.  Clean and pure materials flow out at numerous stages in the process and are ready for immediate reuse.  By processing in batches, customers are also provided accurate materials yield information along with the final 
product uses if needed. 

Ink Jet to be added in 2010

Innovative Recycling has patented several key processes in their system which is now in the process of being modified to accommodate Ink Jet Cartridges. This new process for Ink Jet Cartridges is expected to be up and running during 2010. 

INNOVATIVE SERVICES

Laser Cartridge Recycling
Each customer is provided a Certificate of Recycle for meeting documentation requirements in government or other contracts.

Customer Information 
Innovative Recycling can provide accurate accounting by weight of cartridges received by customer. 

Yield of Raw Materials
Mass balance data can be provided on each batch of processed material including yields of raw materials by type. 

Engineering Assistance
Innovative Recycling maintains a competent staff of experienced engineers ready to help with special problems.

Logistics
Innovative’s logistics staff can assist you with transportation and packaging needs.