23 November 2021
The 23rd of November the LIFE NEW4CARTRIDGES Project was officially presented during the LIFE20 Welcome Meeting. The 1.81 M€ project (997K€ contribution from the European LIFE Program), with a duration of 36 months, will develop a new circular approach for reusing and recycling ink cartridges.
The LIFE NEW4CARTRIDGES project will provide solutions for both the upcycling of exhausted reusable cartridges and the recycling of cartridges no longer suitable for reuse. Project leader Eco Store, an Italian SME specialising in printer consumables, will develop and demonstrate a semi-automated ink cartridge regeneration process to replace the currently manual workflow, enabling the same cartridge to be reused up to 10 times instead of the current 3 times limit. The project team will implement a new cleaning procedure for used cartridges, recycle end-of-life cartridges using an innovative technology to obtain high-quality secondary raw materials, and raise consumer awareness to increase use of reusable ink.
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