Did you know that....

• Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone!
• 70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are currently being thrown out.
• Every year over 300 million cartridges are thrown away. In terms of weight, that is equivalent to over 30,500 African Elephants!
• Stacking 105 laser toner cartridges end-to-end equals the height of the Statue of Liberty.
• More than 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used annually around the world - laid end-to-end this would be 129 times as long as the Great Wall of China.
• Each discarded empty laser printer cartridge adds approximately three pounds of waste to our landfills.
• 20-30% of all cartridges sold worldwide are remanufactured.
• If the empty cartridges the people of the world throw away each year were stacked end to end they would be able to circle the earth – that’s over 23,860 miles!
• A cartridge takes approximately 1000 years to biodegrade.

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• 2 1/2 ounces of oil are used for every new inkjet cartridge produced.
• 3 1/2 quarts of oil are used for every new laser cartridge produced.
• Each laser printer cartridge, on average, consists of approximately 2 1/2 ponds of plastic - primarily acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) - along with steel, aluminum and rubber.
• Manufacturing each new printer cartridge requires approximately 3 quarts of petrolium to power the manufacturing process that converts oil and natural gas to plastics.
• Each cartridge contains petrolium as "embedded" energy (i.e.. fuel value of the plastic itself). It takes the energy equivilant of approximately 1/2 gallon of oil to make one 2 1/2 pound cartridge.