Good news for green designers… e-cycling couldn’t be easier now that Staples is accepting electronic items for e-cycling at ALL their US branches! KAPLA!!! So next time your cel phone, keyboard, mouse, motherboard, or monitor blitzes out… you can drop it off at your local Staples and they’ll e-cycle it for you! They also will take your empty ink & tonor catridges off your hands! Check it out…
Ink and Toner

We offer a $3 coupon toward a future purchase of ink or toner when HP, Lexmark™ or Dell cartridges are recycled. We also offer two other programs to make it easy for our customers to recycle empty ink and toner cartridges:

• Recycle for Education : customers to support local schools by donating their used cartridges. Participating schools receive $3 for each eligible cartridge received. Staples has donated more than $3 million to local schools and educational organizations since the program’s inception in 2003.
• We launched our new InkDropSM service toward the end of 2005 as well. When a cartridge runs out, customers simply drop a new one in the printer and mail us the empty using the prepaid shipping materials. We send a replacement automatically, and all shipping is free.

Electronics and Batteries

• We offer recycling service programs to our retail and larger business customers for cellular phones, PDAs, pagers, digital cameras, and chargers through our nonprofit partner Collective Good, who refurbishes products where feasible or recycles them and donates a portion of the proceeds to charity.
• We are a U.S. EPA Plug–In to eCycling partner, and have worked with EPA and Intel on several pilot computer recycling programs across the United States. We have partnered with the Take It Back Network for our eCycling programs in Washington State.
• We offer rechargeable battery recycling to retail and contract customers in the U.S. and Canada. This service is offered in partnership with the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation.