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! |
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