Protecting the Environment - Reasons to Recycle More

Have you any idea at all how much used printer cartridges conduce to landfill?

Surprisingly 18 million printer and inkjet cartridges are used in Australia alone every year. That is nearly one printer cartridge per person and more importantly over 5,000 tones of waste to conduce to landfill. Being the driest continent on the planet, Australians are acutely aware of the value of water and the need to conserve water as best we can. Households all over Australia are installing water tanks to help sell out the number of water used from our reservoirs and dams. We have not, unfortunately, shown the same enthusiasm for recycling printer cartridges. Why is this so?

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It is not that Australians don't care for the environment, far from it, the intuit that recycling is not high on our program is merely a lack of schooling about the effects that printer cartridges have. We just don't hear about it, not on the news, not in the paper, not on the radio. It just doesn't appear to be newsworthy or a priority.

A up-to-date study shows that about a third of consumers are just tossing their used cartridges in the trash and about 14% are trying to do the right thing, but sadly they are erroneously placing used cartridges in the council recycling bins in case,granted to them, mental that will recycle them. Fantasize the effects on our recycling if we used the household-recycling bin to arrange of paint. A itsybitsy drastic to prove a point maybe, but putting printer cartridges into the household recycling bin is not too dissimilar. Having foreign waste in the recycling bin reduces the wide effectiveness of the recycling effort.

Recycling cartridges is not only doable but it is also quite easy. There a number of recycling programs and amongst them 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' stands out as an exquisite way to recycle printer cartridges Old cartridges can be deposited at a number of drop off points and then collected and returned to industry for recycling. It's a relatively easy program to follow and has a big impact on helping the environment when followed.

Recycled printer cartridges are good for the environment and also provides us all with an opportunity do the right thing, especially is it is not an onerous task. Hopefully this description will help to enlighten population on the effects that printer cartridges have on the environment and the awareness level is raised. I believe that we should all think seriously about recycling our used and empty printer and inkjet cartridges and at least try to help the environment and also save you some money.

Protecting the Environment - Reasons to Recycle More