Los Angeles has spent years tightening rules around single-use plastics, from shopping bags to takeaway containers, and now it has set its sights on a new environmental enemy, with the city council announcing plans to advance a ban on certain single-use printer cartridges.
What’s being targeted isn’t printing itself, or even cartridges as a category. The focus is on cartridges that can’t be refilled, remanufactured, reused, or recovered through a take-back program - effectively products designed to be thrown away once they're empty and no longer of use.
