Ink jet printers tend to go through ink cartridges at incredibly fast paces. Millions of ink cartridges are thrown away each year or recycled, or occasionally you find a method to refill them, although most printer manufacturers warn you not to mostly because they make significantly more money from the ink than from the printers themselves. But there’s other ways to recycle them.
One crafty Etsy seller, Boxlightbox, has managed to find a great use for all the empty cartridges his company was discarding- he turned them into lamps. There’s the $35 single bulb lamp above or the big daddy $200 chandelier. They actually look pretty good! Available in all your favorite inkjet colors like matte black, cyan, light-cyan, magenta, light-magenta, yellow, light-black, and light-light-black. The chandelier actually has the colors arranged just like they are in the printer itself.
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Great idea! You can help our environment with this.
Keep up the good work!
Its really a nice thought and nice post on recycle ink cartridges.
Thanks for this.
Cool idea! Ink cartridges produce a lot of waste so it’s good to see some interesting design being made out of them.
Fantastico!
Way cool DIY stuff. A huge part of being “green” has to be re-purposing.
I’m not sure what a resivoir is or anything I just need to know where I can find the holes to put the refill ink. Can you help me
What a great concept. Refill that cartridge many times before recycling it into a lamp!
This is a brilliant as a recycling concept. Something going to waste converted into another usable product. May be remove the labels.
It’s an excellent idea, and not only do the plastic cartridges get reused and recycled, but the guy gets to make a little extra money. It makes you think about what else you could possibly use your old cartridges for…there’s quite a few interesting possibilities.
This is a great idea. I’ve seen a couple artsy things made with used cartridges, but never thought of such a lamp.
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i would definetely try this one on my epmty inkjet ink!
finally the will be useful and not pile up on my backyard//