A Cleaner, Greener Cartridge World

Almost all inkjet and laser cartridges can either be refilled or remanufactured.

Every year millions of empty printer cartridges are needlessly thrown away into UK landfill sites.

Every aspect of our business operates in a manner that has a positive effect on the environment and recycling plays a key role in this process. Here are a few good reasons why it is so important to refill not landfill your empty printer cartridges:

• Over 45 million cartridges go into UK landfill sites each year*.
• That’s enough to cover Old Trafford football pitch 17 times or build a second Blackpool Tower!
• Cover Brighton Pier 10 times. Which would stretch 3 miles out to sea! (524m x 30m).
• Cover the Humber Bridge 3 times! (2,220m x 28.5m)
• Almost fill Big Ben! (15m x 15m x 96m)
• Build a replica of the Tyne Bridge! (396m x 17m) 
• Stretch the length of Hadrian's Wall! (73 miles) 15 times 
• Each cartridge thrown into landfill can take up to 1000 years to decompose**. 
• In just 12 months, cartridge recycling could save 15 million litres of oil in the UK.
• The remanufacturing process saves approx 2.5 kg of CO2 per cartridge compared to the production of a new cartridge***.

* Source: UK Cartridge Remanufacture Association, 2006

** Source: International Imaging Technology Council, http://www.consumerchoice.info/faq.htm, October 2008

*** Source: An independent study performed by Best Foot Forward and commissioned by the Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse, 2008.