Collection of Empties
Have empty or used toner cartridges that you wish to dispose of? Why not recycle them and help reduce your carbon footprint?
We collect used and empty toner cartridges to send for re-manufacturing and recycling. Let us know what cartridges you have and we may purchase from you if there is a demand in the market for them. For those that do not, we will also be happy to recycle them for you. Just collate them together and contact us to pick them up.
We can set up recycling bins in your office to collect these used toner cartridges too. Do your part for the environment by going green and recycling your consumables.
For more information about how you can recycle your cartridges, feel free to contact us here.
Facts About Recycling Toner/Ink Cartridges
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Each year over 375 million empty ink and toner cartridges are thrown away with most ending up in landfills or in incinerators. Put end-to-end, these disposed cartridges would circle the earth over three times.
This mountain of waste can be reduced through reuse and recycling. Yet approximately 70% of all ink cartridges and 50% of all toner cartridges are still not recycled.
The plastics used in printer cartridges are made of an engineering grade polymer that have a very slow decomposing rate ranging between 450 to 1000 years depending on the cartridge type. Ink cartridges may also leak printer ink polluting the surrounding environment.
Disposing ink cartridges into garbage can cause great harm to environment and miniature life. Most importantly, carbon black (toner) has been classified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
More than three quarts of oil are consumed in producing each new laser cartridge. For manufacturing a new inkjet cartridge, about three ounces of oil are required. Recycling helps lower this cost to a considerable degree. An estimated quantity of over 11 million gallons of oil can be saved in only seven months by ink cartridge recycling.
By recycling printer cartridges, we conserve natural resources and energy by reducing the need for virgin materials. Up to 97 percent of the materials that make up a printer cartridge can be recycled or reused if taken care of. Printer cartridges can in extreme cases be refilled up to 15 times before reaching the end of their life most though averaging between 5-7 refills. For reused/remanufacturing cartridges the oil consumption is reduced to zero.
Source: http://www.agreenerrefill.com/The-Benefits-of-Recycling