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Printer cartridge facts

  • If you toss your printer cartridges in the bin they will take 1,000 years to decompose – that’s nearly nine times as long as Emiliano Mercado Toro has been alive and, at 114, he is the oldest man in the whole wide world!
  • More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK alone, the equivalent weight of 18 blue whales.
  • If the empty cartridges the people of the world throw away each year were stacked end to end they would be able to circle the earth – that’s over 38,400 kilometres!
  • Printer ink costs more than space shuttle fuel.
  • The 17 million laser cartridges recycled in Europe in 2005 resulted in the saving of 6 million litres of virgin oil which would fill three Olympic sized swimming pools and more.