Well, sometimes recycling means recycle into engery....
Does burning plastic actually produce any worthwhile "energy"
AOT lots of goo and stink? Seriously, I'm curious.
Well, a good burning plant which burns things from leaves to plastic,
where plastic does actually have more stored engery than wood may
require 5 megawatts/day to operate and produce 30 megawats of powe/day.
In all fairness, an inkjet cartridge is likely to produce somewhere
between coal and oil's level of engery. However companies that have a
cartridge to engery recycling program are not nessicarly as efficent as
large waste burning plants, and may not actually sell the electricity
to others. Odds are it takes more engery to make a cartridge as to
burn one, and not to speak of the polution issues. These thing can be
easily designed to be reused, but no one is interested.