Why Recycle Your Ink Cartridges?
Did you know that over 13 cartridges are discarded in the U.S. every second?
That's hundreds of millions of cartridges that end up in landfills every year, made with plastics that can take at least 1,000 years to decompose. Not a good thing.
It´s very easy to recyle your ink cartridges, so get started today.
It takes about 80% less energy to remanufacture plastic than to produce it new. And remanufactured laser cartridges use about half the amount of oil (a nonrenewable fossil fuel) needed to make brand new ones. So buy recycled cartridges to begin with. You'll save them from entering the waste stream.
Environment Facts:
- Humans dump more than 45,000 tons of plastic trash into the world's oceans every year, killing up to one million seabirds and sea creatures annually.
- Recycling one ton of material in typical recycling program can conserve at least $187 worth of electricity, petroleum, natural gas, and coal, even after considering the energy used to collect and transport the material.
- The energy conserved in 1998 because of recycling was enough to power more than nine million household for one year.
Start today.
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