Capital Business Systems Inc. can help create, manage, store and route your documents more efficiently. We help streamline the flow of information, which cuts costs and delivers meaningful business results. But we are more than just printers and copiers. We also provide a full suite of Managed Network Solutions and Unified Communications Systems to enable your business to embrace the future of work.

Established in 1982, Capital Business Systems Inc. serves businesses like yours in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and northwestern New Mexico. Our customer vision allows us to build strong relationships with our customers, meeting their specific document needs rather than making their needs meet our products, and by making it easy to do business with us.

By combining our team of knowledgeable consultants with the quality information gathered through our comprehensive document analysis program, Capital Business Systems can provide a document management solution that is designed to not only meet but also exceed your expectations.

Recycling ink cartridges

We all want to be environmentally responsible. At the office, you probably already have a paper recycling process in place. Perhaps you also already recycle your ink & toner cartridges.

Recycling empty cartridges has numerous benefits. It reduces soil and water contamination and air emissions. Spent cartridges contain residual chemicals which, if simply tossed in the garbage and trucked to a landfill, can leech into the soil, water system and eventually get into our drinking water. Some of the most worrying toxic element chemicals include arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, dioxins, lead, mercury and nickel.

In some cases, landfills might choose to incinerate empty cartridges, which of course increases air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

And speaking of landfills – the fewer items that end up there, the better. The plastics typically used in printer cartridges are made of a polymer that has a very slow decomposition rate which ranges between 500 and 1000 years. That cartridge that you toss in the trash today, might still be around when your great, great, great, great, great, great, grandkids are entering the workforce.

Recycling, of course, can mean two different things. It can mean that the spent cartridges are deconstructed and used for other purposes. It can also mean that the cartridges might be kept largely intact and used for the same purpose, also known as remanufacturing.