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Our experts are constantly producing content across a variety of topics. We also know that time is limited and there are plenty of reports flying across everyone’s desk at any time. This series hopes to illuminate a single data point within one of our analyses, forecasts, or research reports that could prove interesting and encourage you to consider reviewing the full deliverable.
Sustainability is a huge issue for everyone regardless of market, but not everyone behaves in the same way. Our recent 2024 Print in Your Lifestyle Executive Summary report explores how printing and scanning behaviors for business and personal purposes away from the office environment has changed. We explored who is printing and scanning, the types of documents they are creating, as well as what they do with their supplies afterwards.
When 290 respondents to our US web survey were asked about how they dispose of their ink and toner after it was used, they were provided with a variety of different options ranging from recycling to returning it to the producer to be disposed of. Several respondents noted, however, that they just throw the spent toner or inkjet cartridge away. When we look at this data by printer type, inkjet users were much more likely to throw away their used cartridges than laser printer users. (This was especially true for single function inkjet printers.)
While this is just one method of disposing of supplies, it is not the only way that our respondents got rid of spent ink and toner. For more information about the sustainability practices of home and office printers, check out the 2024 Print in Your Lifestyle Executive Summary reports for the US and Western European markets.
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