CARTRIDGE CONTENTS, FACTS, ESTIMATES AND SOLUTIONS !

                                             

A typical Shipment (In Mass Collection) Handled Delicately

by Pinky Pink's Ink, (PPI) Pollution Prevention Innovation

• 1/3 cup of oil is used to make each ink jet cartridge produced!
•  Almost 1 gallon of oil is used for every laser toner cartridge produced !
• 16 million gallons of oil are used each year to manufacture approx 840 million cartridges!
• An ink cartridge takes 1000 years to decompose naturally! 
• 8 cartridges are thrown away every second in the USA! 
• 300 million cartridges were dumped in landfills 2003 (Imagine what it is today)!

Total weight is equivalent 30,500 African Elephants or 40 Boeing 747 jets!

Total length, stacked end to end, stretches 24,000 miles around the Earth!

If we do not recycle…. in 5 years there will be enough empty cartridges thrown away,world wide, to build a bridge from Earth to the Moon, that’s 223,000 miles! 

If we do not recycle…. in 8 years there will be enough empty cartridges thrown away, world wide:

To fill the Grand Canyon!

To fill the tank of your car with ink from a leading printer manufacturer would cost $100,000! 

To fill an Olympic size swimming pool would cost $5.9 BILLION!

 

Elements in Toner Dust and Colored Inkjets may include and are not limited to:

LEAD, CADMIUM, MERCURY AND NITRATES

Lead Hazards:       Lead poisoning is one of the foremost environmental health threats to children in the U.S.

Almost a half million children - 2.2% of all pre-schoolers -have enough lead in their blood to reduce intelligence and attention span,

cause learning disabilities, and damage permanently a child's brain and nervous system. Most children are poisoned by lead in and

around their home when they are exposed to harmful levels of lead-contaminated dust, deteriorated lead-based paint, and lead-contaminated soil.

• Over 1 billion toner and ink-jet cartridges are shipped world wide, and 13% of those are remanufactured (and this number is growing). 

• More than ½ million people in the US are employed in some type of remanufacturing activities. 

• It takes less energy to remanufacture products than it would to recycle them. Why?  Remanufacturing a cartridge or REUSE it's core can be done numerous times by recovering empties delicately....Where Recycling converts the materials back into a raw materials. 
• Remanufacturing industries (of all products) save as much energy as produced by five nuclear power plants.  YES !!