Earth day is a great time to familiarize yourself with eco-friendly printers like the Epson ET-8500 printer. As we march towards a greener and cleaner future, we’re always on the lookout for the latest sustainable and eco-friendly technologies. Epson’s new line of supertank printers help you reduce waste and increase productivity—and produce amazing high-quality prints. Learn why this printer is better for the planet and for you, then enter to win one for your home.

Two reasons why Epson EcoTank printers are better for the environment

Over the past few years I have used much less paper and print a lot less at home too. One of the most important reasons is that my children graduated from school and moved out. No more school projects to print. While they were in school I bet we used an ink cartridge every month or two. Parents, you know what I am talking about! Recycling and composting are activities that many of us are doing a lot more than even a decade ago. Purchasing products from companies creating sustainable tech, like Epson, is another way to help the planet.

The EcoTank printers from Epson are just what parents need: you’ll save money and you’ll be helping the environment.

Save money: Ink cartridges are not cheap! With an Epson ET-8550 you’ll just refill the ink reservoirs in the printer when the ink levels are low. You won’t ever buy another ink cartridge! In fact, the ink bottles this printer comes with have so much ink that my family would have gone years without needing to buy more. Each ink bottle set is equivalent of 100 ink cartridges.

Help the environment: Fewer ink cartridges in your shopping cart means less ink cartridge plastic in the environment. It also means less plastic packaging for those ink cartridges, less energy being used on ink cartridge production, and less travel back and forth to transport those ink cartridges. You can see how big a deal these printers are.

Celebrate Earth Day by spreading the news about Epson Ecotank printers 

Do you celebrate Earth Day? You can! You could host an Earth Day party: use an Epson eco-friendly printer to create the invitations. Okay perhaps not. Or you could petition the government to turn Earth Day into a stat holiday. That too may be a bit too extreme for most of us. Perhaps a simpler way to help the environment is to just tell friends and family about companies, like Epson, who are making an effort toward sustainability, creating technology that uses less plastic and consumes less energy. Even better when you save money at the same time as you do with an Epson printer!

Then tell your friends to read and follow these instructions and they might win one.

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in three different ways.

  1. In a comment below, tell us at least one innovative thing you do in your home to reduce waste and help the environment.
  2. In a comment beneath the review article for this printer on the blog, tell us two things mentioned in that article that you like about this printer.
  3. For two additional entries, create a public post on a social media channel sharing with your friends and followers that you are entering a Best Buy Blog contest for a chance to win an eco-friendly Epson EcoTank printer; include the hashtag #BestBuyEpsonContest, so we can find your post, and include a picture from this contest page. Then return here and tell us in a comment below on which channel you posted it and the name of your channel (since many people use pseudonyms) so that we can check and verify your entry. You can use any social media channel (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.), but the post must be public so we can verify it is there.

What you can win

At the end of this contest, we will randomly select one winner to receive a new Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 Wireless All-In-One Supertank Inkjet Printer.

This contest runs from April 12th to April 25th.

Remember you can enter in three different ways. Tell everyone you know about the joys of sustainable printing with an Epson EcoTank printer as a great way to celebrate Earth Day.

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Good Luck

Martin Renaud
Martin Renaud
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Martin loves working with the talented editors and writers on the Best Buy Blog as Editor-in-Chief. During his spare time he is either working on his next novel, cooking up a masterpiece in the kitchen, or adding some smart tech to his new home on Mayne Island in British Columbia.
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  5. We reuse a lot of the containers food products come in (store-bought or otherwise) – whether it’s the store leftovers or to organize stationary

  6. I work from home some days each week, and the days that I go into the office I ride my bike. We also recycle and donate clothing that we’re no longer using.

  9. Not only do I often thrift (and online Varagesale) shop, but I also upcycle and repurpose items! Likewise, I’ve been using the same Samsung SCX-4200 laser printer/copier/scanner since … December 2005 (bought at the Best Buy location on W. Broadway/Burrard in Vancouver, when the store was still Future Shop). I used it yesterday to copy (one sided, b&w) parts of a professional course I’m studying for. Tedious (with its top lifting, face down scanner and one sided printing), but serviceable.

    Unfortunately, my 2016 Mac AirBook no longer has updated software for the Samsung SCX 4200, so I can’t even plug it into the device to print from there; instead, I have to transfer files over to a thriteen year-old Toshiba laptop, connect it to the printer, and … wait as it slowly prints what I need.

    Perhaps it’s time to update my printing technology, and donate my reliable Samsung to someone whose printing tasks are simple.

  10. I recycle all kitchen food waste to compost down as fertilizer to bring on new plants and vegetables in my garden, and endless eco green cycle

  12. We do what most of those on the posts do. We reuse what we can, donate what we cannot use or are no longer using, food scraps are taken to the food recycle bins(city makes it into biofuel). Try to get foods that have less packaging which is a bit difficult at times. Recycle old, unusable, unable to get repaired, broken electronics at the E-Recycle location.

  14. Every time I shop I move the new items to the back so I never have to throw out items because past best before date. I donate and give away unused/wanted items instead of throwing out.

  15. I have a lot of my lights and plugged in items hooked onto alexa so that I can control our energy consumption from anywhere

  16. I combine errands to reduce fuel, compost, recycle and donate clothing and household “stuff” to charity

  17. Just recently planted field tomato seeds indoors to replant outdoors when it is warmer. The seeds were saved from a gifted tomato from my sister-in-law last year. Have also planted cucumber seeds from a cucumber that I grew last year. These are and will be watered with gray water from the kitchen.

  18. I cook larger amounts of food at once, freezing it in smaller portions, that alway there’s no waste and also saving energy from cooking appliances as well

  22. one innovative thing I do in your home to reduce waste and help the environment is turning off the heating in my apartment when I sleep.

  27. I like to buy food with less packaging so less waste, and reuse a lot of glass containers for other purposes in my home.

  29. We reuse or recycle anything we can. We only put out one grocery bag full of garbage every few months.

  32. I hang my clothes outside on a clothes line to dry this not using throw away bounce sheets, and wash my clothes in cold water.

  34. We have recycled long before it became fashionable.

    Only cloth diapers. Saved any extra water ( washing fruit and vegetables ) to use on plants in and outside .

  36. use reusable containers and bags for grocery shopping and food storage to minimize the use of disposable plastic.

  38. i use front and back of my copy paper for starters, and only print what I absolutely must. I like that its a wifi printer so I can print from my phone and I like that it holds 100 sheets of paper. It can be a nuisance refilling paper

  44. One innovative thing I do to reduce waste is having joined my local Buy Nothing group – rather than tossing items, I gift them to others to use.

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