Trivia
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- Three and a half quarts of oil are used to manufacture every laser toner cartridge. At the current rate of 188 million laser toner cartridges, that is more than 5 million gallons of oil every year.
- Most cartridges can be refilled up to five times. Even without recycling, that cuts the landfill waste by FIVE TIMES!
- Stacked end to end, the inkjet cartridges thrown away in one year would cover a distance of over 24,000 miles – enough to circle the earth.
- In the US alone, an average of 8 cartridges is thrown away each second (252 million a year).
- The total weight of those cartridges is equivalent to more than 30,500 African elephants.
- Cartridges can take over 1000 years to decompose.
