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Cartridge
World is committed to helping save the environment
Cartridge
World is providing consumers and businesses with an alternative
to reduce the impact of millions of cartridges that are thrown
away and that end up in landfills each year. By making this choice,
you are helping to protect the future of our environment. This
proactive solution to waste reduction is a win/win for consumers,
entrepreneurs and the environment. Every cartridge refilled means
one less cartridge in our landfills.
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addition to being environmentally responsible, Cartridge World
and recycling cartridges also creates jobs locally. Every cartridge
is recycled and remanufactured and in the community that the Cartridge
World store serves. Recycling cartridges is environmentally friendly
and you can feel good about supporting sustainable development
for the planet’s limited natural resources and not adding to our
already overloaded landfills. With our continued commitment to
recycle printer cartridges, we look forward to the day when recycling
cartridges is as common as separating waste material in our homes
for the recycle bins. If you are interested in having Cartridge
World set up a cartridge recycling program with your business,
school or organization, contact your nearest Cartridge World store
to ask for a Recycling Collection Bin.
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It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge.
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Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States
alone!
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In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are
discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent
annually!
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A laser cartridge thrown into landfill can take up to 450 years
to decompose. Some components made of industrial grade plastics
will take over a thousand years to decompose.
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Every remanufactured cartridge saves nearly 3 and 1/2 pounds of
solid waste from being deposited in landfills.
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70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are
currently being thrown out.
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In one year, if the world’s discarded cartridges were stacked
end-to-end, they would circle the earth over three times.
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