WHY RECYCLE?
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The plastic used in each printer cartridge takes more than 10
centuries (that's 1000 years!) to decompose.1
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More than 3 quarts of oil are used to produce each laser cartridge.2
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25 million printer cartridges go to landfills each month.3
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Toner cartridge remanufacturing saves over 38,000 tons of
plastic and metal from landfills.1
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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.
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2)Recharger Magazine.
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3)Greening the Government, U.S. Dept of Energy Office of Industrial Technologies.
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