The plastic used in each printer cartridge takes more than 10 centuries (that's 1000 years!) to decompose.
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More than 3 quarts of oil are used to produce each laser cartridge.
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25 million printer cartridges go to landfills each month.
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Toner cartridge remanufacturing saves over 38,000 tons of plastic and metal from landfills.
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Stacking 125 laser toner cartridges end-to-end equals the height of the Statue of Liberty.
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.
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Drop the boxes off at your nearest UPS facility or hand them to your UPS driver.
