The ETIRA Board met in Italy for its annual meeting and visited the Ecomondo sustainability trade show in Rimini. Discussions focused on market challenges, fighting non-compliant cartridges, upcoming EU Ecodesign...

ETIRA has responded to the EU’s plans for a Circular Economy Act, calling for urgent regulatory support for the reuse of cartridges. The association urges the EU to remove OEM...

ETIRA supports EU levies as a first step towards fair competition, but the environmental costs of imported cartridges are far higher than €2 per parcel. The real cost of collecting...

The EU’s new Ecodesign rules for smartphones and tablets give a glimpse of what may come for printers and imaging equipment. From June 2025, devices will have to meet strict...

E-commerce has transformed the way Europeans buy everything from toys to tech to printer cartridges. Yet behind the convenience of a click lies a growing risk: unsafe and non-compliant products...

The European Commission’s newly published evaluation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive confirms what ETIRA has long stated: the legislation is no longer fit for purpose. With...