Why We Should Recycle Ink and Toner Cartridges
By recycling we are helping to cut down on waste that will eventually end up in landfills or incinerators, save tax dollars on landfill and waste management costs, it helps conserve our natural resources and it create new jobs which support our local economy and our own community.
Less in the Landfills and Incinerators
More then 375 million empty cartridges end up in the landfills and incinerators. That means more then half of the cartridges we are using end up in landfills. This is enough garbage to encircle our Earth more than three times! That equates to around eleven cartridges being thrown in the trash every second. With that many cartridges a possibility exists that the ink from these can leak and pollute the surrounding environment.
By recycling and reusing the cartridges we are shrinking
the amount being thrown away, but with better legislation,
environmental awareness and a more mature recycling industry we can reduce
this percentage even more.
Conserving Natural Resources
By conserving natural resources we cut down on the need for virgin materials needed to make new cartridges. If we properly reuse or recycle our ink and toner cartridges we can save up to 97 percent of those materials. We can also save by refilling our cartridges before we recycle them. Most cartridges have a refill life of between five and seven refills before the end of their life.
How it Contributes To Our Community
By purchasing or recycling in our community we help create local job to
support our community and get people back into the workforce. This of course
helps bolster our local economy with providing jobvs in the remanufacturing industry which spreads out to smaller, local companies.
According to the U.S. Recycling Economic Information Study, there are more than 56,000 recycling and reuse establishments in
the US and they employ approximately 1.1 million people.
Recycling creates new businesses such as for transporting, processing and
selling recovered materials as well as jobs for material sorters, dispatchers, truck drivers, sales representatives, process engineers and even chemists.
