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In the current economy, it is very important to ensure that you are doing everything you can to ensure your business is running as smoothly as possible and with the smallest overhead it can manage, while still fulfilling the aforementioned goal. There are few office expenses as costly as operating printers and copy machines, and these devices are also responsible for a significant portion of office waste. Unfortunately, this coincides with another issue that is not greeted with the same importance as many other issues, although it has a profound effect on the entire world: recycling.

Surprisingly, the average black toner cartridge weighs about three pounds. It is made up of about forty percent metal, forty percent high quality plastics, and twenty percent rubber, foam, paper, and actual toner. These materials are held to a high standard of production, and therefore can take up to a thousand years to decompose naturally in landfills. Ink and toner cartridges thrown away in the United States alone every year equal the weight of over one hundred thousand compact cars. On top of that, it can take about two and a half ounces of oil to produce a single ink cartridge, while an average black toner cartridge requires about ten times that, or twenty five ounces of oil.

Not only does it seem ridiculous to simply dispose of so many products per year, the wasting of raw materials is absolutely ludicrous. If that does not appeal to you, consider that these costs are passed on to consumers, while recycling drastically cuts down on spending and raw material consumption. Recycling and reusing printer cartridges can help save the environment and your business’s bottom line, while buying recycled or remanufactured products can cut down on costs (by fifty percent or more) and can eliminate huge amounts of trash being deposited in landfills every single year.