Why recycle your ink and toner cartridges?

Ink and Toner Solutions of Greensboro, 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, your are helping to protect the future of our environment. This proactive solution to waste reduction benefits consumers, entrepreneurs and the environment. Every cartridge refilled means one less cartridge in our landfills.

You can feel good about supporting sustainable development for the planet's limited natural resources and not adding to our already overloaded landfills. With their continued commitment, we look forward to the day when recycling cartridges is as common as separating waste material for the recycle bins in our homes.

Facts:
• It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge, that's 3,801,600 gallons per year just in the United States!
• Almost 10,800 cartridges are thrown away per day in the United States alone!
• In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent annually!
• A laser cartridge thrown into a landfill can take up to 450 years to decompose. Some components made of industrial grade plastics will take over a thousand years to decompose.
• Every re-manufactured cartridge saves nearly 3 1/2 pounds of solid waste from being deposited in landfills.
• 70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are currently being thrown out.
• In one year, if the world's discarded cartridges were stacked end-to-end, they would circle the earth over three times.

Every single cartridge saved from a landfill makes a difference. But imagine the difference made when 100,000,000 or even 1,000 cartridges are saved? This will not only protect our environment, but also save consumers thousands of dollars.

Now imagine the difference when individuals, then organizations, then cities, then states and then nations start participating! That is Impact with Effect! At Ink and Toner Solutions they are not only making a difference, they are changing the world!

It is important that the following message gets out to the 80% of printer users who dispose of their printer cartridges.
• You don't have to throw out your expensive printer cartridges. Most printer cartridges can be re-manufactured, refilled or reloaded.
• By bringing your used cartridges to Ink and Toner Solutions, you can help protect our environment, and save 50% compared to the cost of a new cartridge!
• Ink and Toner Solutions is dedicated to helping consumers, businesses, and the planet!

If you can't make it to Ink and Toner Solutions - call Business Recycling Service of the Triad at 336-906-9307, we can pick it up for you!