Place used ink cartridges in a dedicated collection box.

With the spread of home printers, five printer manufacturers are conducting the "Ink Cartridge Homecoming Project" (external link) to recycle used ink cartridges, which are said to be about 200 million units discharged annually. increase.
The city supports this project and has installed collection boxes for ink cartridges at 10 public facilities in the city.
In order to effectively utilize limited resources, please put used ink cartridges in the collection box.

You can bring it directly to the following facilities during opening hours (including holidays ).
Take out the box/bag and put only the ink cartridge into the collection box.

Note: Genuine products from 4 companies (Brother, Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard Japan) are eligible for recall.
Please note that Lexmark products are no longer covered from April 2016, and Dell products are no longer covered from April 2019 .
Note: Items discharged from business establishments are not eligible for collection.

Facilities for collecting used ink cartridges

Note: Placement in parentheses (1) City Hall (next to general information)
(2) Central Cultural Center (main entrance)
(3) Second Cultural Center (main entrance)
(4) Third Cultural Center (main entrance)
(5) Fourth Cultural Center (main entrance)
(6) Shiroyama Cultural Center (main entrance)
(7) Hirao branch office (next to the counter)
(8) Wakabadai branch office (entrance on the i Plaza branch office side)
(9) Municipal Central Library (in front of the counter)
(10) General Gymnasium (in front of the counter)

From collection to recycling

The collection box full of cartridges is sent to the sorting center through the post office. After being sorted one by one by manufacturer at the sorting base, each manufacturer reuses or recycles them as remanufactured cartridges, cartridge parts, and other plastic products.
In addition, donations are also made to organizations working on environmental conservation activities.