WHY RECYCLE?

  • The plastic used in each printer cartridge takes more than 10 centuries (that's 1000 years!) to decompose.1
  • More than 3 quarts of oil are used to produce each laser cartridge.2
  • 25 million printer cartridges go to landfills each month.3
  • Toner cartridge remanufacturing saves over 38,000 tons of plastic and metal from landfills.1
  • Stacking 125 laser toner cartridges end-to-end equals the height of the Statue of Liberty.
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  • 1)International Imaging Technology Council, www.consumerchoice.info, October 2008.

  • 2)Recharger Magazine.

  • 3)Greening the Government, U.S. Dept of Energy Office of Industrial Technologies.