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If you donate your used toner
or inkjet cartridges to Peppercorn,
we are able to sell them on to a remanufacturer
- this can generate much needed income for our project, so helping those in greatest need.
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"Nice
idea, but ..." "It's on my list of things to look into, but with my responsibilities, it never gets to the top of the list." |
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Excuses should not be necessary.
Please read on ...
Ink and toner cartridges in landfill are a huge problem.
Consider this ...
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Of some 60 million inkjet cartridges
used each year in the UK, only about 10% are recycled. In 2003, some twelve to fourteen thousand tonnes of ink cartridges (some 54 million units) ended up in landfill in the U.K. |
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So what?
| It will take about one thousand years for each one of
those millions of ink cartridges to biodegrade in landfill. |
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The plastics included in discarded toner cartridges are made of an engineering grade polymer, which does not degrade. If that plastic is buried in landfill, it will still be intact if dug up in a thousand years. |
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| Landfill sites contain "buried treasure" worth over £100 million in raw materials from discarded printer cartridges. Printer cartridges contain precious oil resources, as well as cartridge ink, both worth a fortune to replace as new. |
By throwing away cartridges, we are throwing away oil!
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Each new toner cartridge takes up to
3.5
litres of oil to produce, and each new inkjet cartridge takes
about one litre. The
average administrative assistant or secretary
uses about 7.2 toner cartridges per year, which could equate to some
25 litres of oil wasted.
In less than a
year, recycling cartridges in Europe
could save more oil than the 11,000,000 gallons spilled by the Exxon
Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
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If you are in the North Staffordshire area,
please contact us to organise a regular collection of your old cartridges.
We are happy to collect:
Inkjet
Cartridges with attached print headsExamples:
| Brother |
TN6600 |
Hewlett
Packard |
51626A/G
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Hewlett Packard | C6657A |
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| Brother |
TN7600 |
Hewlett Packard | 51629A/G |
Hewlett Packard | C6658A |
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| Canon |
E30 |
Hewlett Packard | 51649A |
Hewlett Packard | C8727A |
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| Canon |
BC-01 |
Hewlett Packard | 51645A/G |
Hewlett Packard | C8728A |
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| Canon |
BX-2/3 |
Hewlett Packard | C1823A/D |
Hewlett Packard | C8766E |
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| Canon |
BC-05 |
Hewlett Packard | C6578A/D |
Hewlett Packard | C9363E |
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| Lexmark |
12A1980 |
Hewlett Packard | C6614D |
Hewlett Packard | C8765E |
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| Lexmark |
17G0050 |
Hewlett Packard | C6615D |
Any
other HP or Lexmark cartridges with print heads attached. |
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| Lexmark |
17G0060 |
Hewlett Packard | C6625A |
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| Lexmark |
15M0120 |
Hewlett Packard | C6656A |
(Epson cartridges do not have
attached print heads).
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Laser Toner Cartridges
| Hewlett Packard | 92298A | Hewlett Packard | Q2613A/X | |
| Hewlett Packard | C3900A | Hewlett Packard | C4096A | |
| Hewlett Packard | C3906A | Hewlett Packard | Q2610A | |
| Hewlett Packard | C3903A | Hewlett Packard | C4127A | |
| Hewlett Packard | C3909A | Hewlett Packard | C4191/92/93/94 | |
| Hewlett Packard | Q2612A | Hewlett Packard | C4127X | |
| Hewlett Packard | C4092A | Hewlett Packard | C8061X | |
| Hewlett Packard | Q2624A | Hewlett Packard | Q1338A | |
| Hewlett Packard | C7115A | Hewlett Packard | Q1339A | |
| Hewlett Packard | C7115X | Hewlett Packard | C4129X |
