- 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!
- A typical printer cartridge takes 1000 years to decompose - that's nearly twice the age of the Blarney Stone!
- More than 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used annually around the world - laid end to end this would be 129 times as long as the great wall of China.
- Approximately 3.5 litres of oil are required to produce each new laser printer cartridge and 90 ml of oil is used to produce each inkjet cartridge
- Each discarded empty laser printer cartridge adds approximately three pounds of waste to our landfills.
- The plastic used in a typical cartridge is made of engineering grade polymers and is expected to take up to 1000 years to decompose
- 20 - 30% of all cartridges sold worldwide are remanufactured.
