- Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone!
- 70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are currently being thrown out.
- Every year over 300 million cartridges are thrown away. In terms of weight, that is equivalent to over 30,500 African Elephants!
- Stacking 105 laser toner cartridges end-to-end equals the height of the Statue of Liberty.
- More than 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used annually around the world - laid end-to-end this would be 129 times as long as the Great Wall of China.
- Each discarded empty laser printer cartridge adds approximately three pounds of waste to our landfills.
- 20-30% of all cartridges sold worldwide are remanufactured.
- If the empty cartridges the people of the world throw away each year were stacked end to end they would be able to circle the earth – that’s over 23,860 miles!
- A cartridge takes approximately 1000 years to biodegrade.
