By Rafi Michael Ninety percent of the homes and offices that have computers have printers. On average, home users use a minimum of two ink cartridges per year. Offices on the other hand use an average of six cartridges per year.
By Karl Smith It is estimated that roughly 350 million cartridges end up in landfills every year.
By Richard Garret In the UK there are over 34 million registered vehicles with 2 million new vehicles being registered each year. On average a vehicle will last 14 years and at the end of this period they are usually sent to be scrapped.
By Alasdair Meldrum Recycling is the reprocessing of materials that would otherwise become waste in order to make them into new products. This is in contrast with reuse: collecting waste such as food containers to be cleaned, refilled and resold.
We are all now living in times of heightened awareness both with concerns for energy conservation and helping to preserve the environment, therefore it is hardly surprising that going green is fast becoming the newest catch phrase in today’s society. It is now commonplace the try and recycle just about everything we use, from aluminum cans to motor parts.