Place used ink cartridges in a dedicated collection box.

With the spread of home printers, approximately 200 million used ink cartridges are said to be discarded each year. In order to recycle these cartridges, four printer manufacturers are running the "Ink Cartridge Homecoming Project" (external link) .
The city is supporting this project and has set up collection boxes specifically for ink cartridges in 10 public facilities across the city.
In order to make effective use of limited resources, please put your used ink cartridges in the collection box.

You can bring it directly to the following facilities during their opening hours (including holiday opening hours ).

Genuine products from four companies (Brother, Canon, Epson, and Hewlett-Packard Japan) are subject to the recall.
Lexmark products have been excluded since April 2016, and Dell products have been excluded since April 2019 .
please note.
・Do not put anything other than ink cartridges. Toner cartridges are not included.
Also, please take home the boxes and bags that the ink cartridges came in.
Items discarded from business establishments are not eligible for collection.

Facilities with used ink cartridge collection boxes

Note: The locations in parentheses are (1) City Hall (next to the general information desk)
(2) Central Cultural Center (Main Entrance)
(3) Second Cultural Center (Main Entrance)
(4) Third Cultural Center (main entrance)
(5) The Fourth Cultural Center (Main Entrance)
(6) Shiroyama Cultural Center (Main Entrance)
(7) Hirao Branch Office (next to the counter)
(8) Wakabadai Branch Office (Entrance/Exit on the i-Plaza Branch Office side)
(9) Municipal Central Library (front of the counter)
(10) General Gymnasium (in front of the counter)

From collection to recycling

Collection boxes full of cartridges are sent to a sorting center through the post office. After being sorted one by one by manufacturer at the sorting base, each manufacturer reuses and recycles them into recycled cartridges, cartridge parts, and other plastic products.
We also make donations to organizations working on environmental conservation activities.