Olympic Printer Resources Recycles Cartridges

Olympic Printer Resources, Inc. (OPR), a company remanufacturing Brother, Canon, and Hewlett Packard toner cartridges at its Poulsbo, Washington production facility, has cooperated with LeMay Pierce County Refuse to collect empty printer, fax, and copier cartridges on Joint Base Lewis McChord. JBLM is a joint military base, home to Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units.

OPR’s President Jeff Petersen said, “Our company has been recycling and remanufacturing cartridges since 1993 and our efforts kept 42.3 tons of cartridges out of landfills last year. We use the empty cartridges to make quality products that meet the same quality and page yield standards of the original manufacturer’s cartridge, but at a savings of 20 to 50 percent.”

OPR has been recognized for hiring veterans and for its environmental management. The Washington Department of the American Legion selected it as their small business of the year in 2011 for hiring veterans. Olympic Printer Resources also received Kitsap County 2008 Earth Day Award for Environmental Leadership.

Petersen added, “I am proud to continue a family tradition started by my grandfather, a disabled World War I Army veteran who, back in the 1920s and 1930s, picked up horse manure from the cavalry stables on Fort Lewis and sold it to farmers in the Puyallup Valley as fertilizer.”