Printer Cartridge Environmental Facts

In the U.S., almost 8 toner cartridges are thrown away every second.

Over 300 million toner cartridges are throw away every year.

For each empty discarded laser printer cartridge, approximately three pounds of waste are added to our landfills.

A cartridge takes around 1,000 years to biodegrade.

If all of the empty cartridges that people throw away every year were stacked end-to-end, they would circle the eart,h with a circumference of over 23,860 miles.

105 toner cartridges stacked end-to-end would reach the height of the Statue of Liberty.

70% of empty toner cartridges throughout the world are thrown away.

Over 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used around the world every year. This amount laid end-to-end would be 129 times as long as the Great Wall of China.

Only 20-30% of all cartridges sold throughout the world are remanufactured.