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
Editor in Chief
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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  1. I recycle and find uses around the home for using lots of containers that many people just put in garbage.

  2. I like that it is cartridge free and you can refill the ink bottles and also the fact that you can print from your phone.

  6. We live in an apartment/city that doesn’t compost… so we do! We collect our food waste in a bucket, and biweekly take it to the dump. Our laundry room is a mini-waste/recycling depot – three separate bins and the aforementioned bucket. The system and extra work is worth it… our garbage can only gets emptied monthly because we’re able to separate it all out so well.

  7. Our food waste goes to our chickens and into the compost. We also refill our toiletry bottles at the local zero waste store.

  19. I recycle all our cans and bottles. My husband, Mike, is great fixing and repairing things so we do not buy anything new until he tries to fix it. We save all of our veggie peelings and bury them in our garden. We set our dishwasher to run during the night when it is cheaper. We try to buy second hand when we can. We donate clothing and household items to the local second hand store.
    I love that with an Epson ET-8550 you’ll just refill the ink reservoirs in the printer when the ink levels are low. I don’t have to buy a new cartridge, which certainly helps with the saving the environment.

  22. Nothing frustrates me more than how wasteful people are. I try really hard to do my part; a green bin weekly, blue and grey bin every other week and( by doing so) I am hard-pressed to fill a kitchen catcher garbage half-full monthly. I will also pick up “in salvageable condition” cast-offs at the curb which I will repair, refinish and repurpose. Many only need a little TLC (Time, Labour and Cash) to make the useful again. BUT, I have to admit – NOTHING bothers me more than all the discarded printers that you see every time you go into any of the thrift stores. Epson is a visionary with these Ecotank printers. All the rest should be ashamed of themselves.

  23. I place recycling as asked in the bac. I do the same for compost.
    The people taking care of it are now asking 30 families to give them ideas.

  24. 1. We recycle everything that we can
    2. I like that it can print 4×6 photo in 15 seconds and it prints in black and colour, scans, and copies! Awesome!

  34. I like to be innovative at home by using a rain barrel to water our plants, and we do some at home composting for rich soil and happy veggies!

  37. We grow most of our veggies from seeds, reuse all our plastic bags and buy in bulk, purchase most of our goods used through classified and buy-nothing groups, lower the temp in the house by 3C when not there, eat meat only once per week, use biodegradable soaps and cleaners, are members in bike-sharing and car-sharing programs, give concert and spa tickets as presents… And a few other things. Disclaimer: it took years to get to where we are, a supremely incremental process, partially because it’s a question of shifting lifelong habits, and partially because markets / companies just didn’t offer enough alternatives. Thank you Martin for this article. Happy Earth day to everyone.

  41. LEss waste, and for a retired person who still does the occasional contract work, it would be very cost effecrive

  42. Changed taps to single handle one so don;t waste as much water trying to adjust your preferred water temperature.

  46. I recycle and compost. I repurpose grocery bags into garbage bags, and use broken crockery for flower pot drainage.

  49. We always try to repurpose or reuse plastics as much as possible, for example we drill holes in the bottom of yogurt containers and use them as starting pots in our greenhouse. We don’t go to take out places so avoid disposible containters. We compost, and purposely try to buy products with less packaging.

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