Help Support “91.3 The Summit”

 

Drop Off Your Empty Inkjet and Laser Printer Cartridges at 91.3 The Summit, and the Akron Recycling Center will make a donation to The Summit for empty inkjet and toner cartridges collected!

Some Cartridge Recycling Facts:

· Everybody has or is using a printer today, and believe it or not millions of these non-biodegradable plastic inkjet and toner cartridges are still thrown into landfills each year.

· The recovery and reuse of toner and inkjet cartridges spares our overburdened landfills millions of cubic feet of non-biodegradable material.

· For each cartridge that is turned in, up to 5 extra pounds of non-biodegradable material are kept out of our landfills.

· During 1999, over 214 million inkjet printer cartridges and 44 million laser printer cartridges were consumed in the United States. It is estimated that over 90% of these cartridges were thrown away when empty.

· Each laser cartridge that is recycled conserves the equivalent of 2 quarts of oil.

Consumption of Laser and InkjetCartridges in the United States

CARTRIDGE TYPE
1996
1997
1998
1999
TOTAL
Inkjet Cartridges........................
146.0
179.0
198.0
214.0
737.0
Laser Cartridges........................
38.6
41.5
43.5
44.4
168.0
TOTALS
184.6
220.5
241.5
258.4
905.0

(1996 through 1999)(Millions of Cartridges)

 

Consider This: If placed end to end, the inkjets thrown away in 1999 would stretch from New York to Los Angeles and back again!