The brother printer my spouse has had for ages is finally running out of ink and a quick chedk shows that they don’t make cartridges for it anymore, you cant reset them, and you can only buy dubious 3rd party options on amazon for $150 each. For that kind of money id rathet find a printer that let’s me put of the scam, but im not finding a lot of options there. Does anyone have advice?

I suspect the dumping was illegal in my area. It was a legit dumpster, but e-waste has a specific disposal procedure. So the incentive for corps is to avoid fines.
But in the case at hand, it was a dumpster in front of an apartment building. It was full of furniture and other household waste.
Around here students dump a lot of stuff. They can’t be bothered to move it, so they toss it, not even trying to use proper process or recover any funds. Depressing.