I recently had an email from a company in Bristol I'd previously contacted to promote our charity recycling scheme.
They had declined our services, because they were using HP's freepost returns scheme which suited their use. However a month later they told me "it would appear that H P are no longer accepting individual cartridges...we only found out as we print labels on line and it stated no longer available."
This could be great news for the printer cartridge recycling industry!
Despite fierce competition, Hewlett Packard still dominate the printer market and the cartridge remanufacturing market make more compatible HP cartridges than any other brand.
I wonder if margins are squeezing HP now? Their scheme diverted cartridges from landfill, but I would wager the scheme was purely in place to restrict the number of empty cartridges available to remanufacturing companies like us - HP appear to have no other financial benefit from this relationship.
I'll wait and see if more enquiries come to us from Hewlett Packard customers (fingers crossed!)
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