ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
North American cartridges dumped in Asia
REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT!
Did you know:
Every printer cartridge on average is made up of about 2 1/2 pounds of plastic, along with rubber, aluminum, and steel, small percentage of foam, rubber paper and ink/toner.
Every year hundred millions of printer cartridges end up dumped in landfills. In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 % annually.
Every printer cartridge that is thrown away adds more than 3½ pounds of plastic and solid waste to our already overloaded landfills.
The plastic discarded from a cartridge is industrial grade and takes more than 1000 years to decompose.
The toxic waste from a cartridge can finds its way into our water table.
About 3 1/2 quarts of petroleum are required to power the manufacturing process that converts oil and natural gas to plastic, to produce a single printer cartridge.
Every printer cartridge contains petroleum as "embedded energy". It takes the energy equivalent of about 1/2 gallon of oil to produce a 2 1/2 pound laser cartridge.
2 1/2 ounces of oil are used to produce each new inkjet cartridge.
3 1/2 quarts of oil are used to produce each new toner cartridge
By making Tonertree.ca your choice for your printing requirements you're helping to reduce the number of used toner cartridges ending up in our landfills, and the energy required to produce new cartridges.
You may ask:
"But the original supplier of my toner takes the empty cartridges back for recycling, why purchase from Tonertree?"
Many of these programs are simply exporting the used cartridges to "recycling" companies in developing countries such as China. In places such as Guiyu China where an environmental disaster is unfolding as a result of imported, used toner cartridges.
Did you know:
Every printer cartridge on average is made up of about 2 1/2 pounds of plastic, along with rubber, aluminum, and steel, small percentage of foam, rubber paper and ink/toner.
Every year hundred millions of printer cartridges end up dumped in landfills. In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 % annually.
Every printer cartridge that is thrown away adds more than 3½ pounds of plastic and solid waste to our already overloaded landfills.
The plastic discarded from a cartridge is industrial grade and takes more than 1000 years to decompose.
The toxic waste from a cartridge can finds its way into our water table.
About 3 1/2 quarts of petroleum are required to power the manufacturing process that converts oil and natural gas to plastic, to produce a single printer cartridge.
Every printer cartridge contains petroleum as "embedded energy". It takes the energy equivalent of about 1/2 gallon of oil to produce a 2 1/2 pound laser cartridge.
2 1/2 ounces of oil are used to produce each new inkjet cartridge.
3 1/2 quarts of oil are used to produce each new toner cartridge
By making Tonertree.ca your choice for your printing requirements you're helping to reduce the number of used toner cartridges ending up in our landfills, and the energy required to produce new cartridges.
You may ask:
"But the original supplier of my toner takes the empty cartridges back for recycling, why purchase from Tonertree?"
Many of these programs are simply exporting the used cartridges to "recycling" companies in developing countries such as China. In places such as Guiyu China where an environmental disaster is unfolding as a result of imported, used toner cartridges.
