Think Green!

Ink Express is providing consumers and businesses with an alternative to reduce the impact of millions of cartridges that are thrown away and that end up in landfills each year. By making this choice, you are helping to protect the future of our environment. This proactive solution to waste reduction is a win/win for consumers, entrepreneurs and the environment. Every cartridge refilled means one less cartridge in our landfills.
Recycling cartridges is environmentally friendly and you can feel good about supporting sustainable development for the planet’s limited natural resources and not adding to our already overloaded landfills.

The Facts

About the Environmental Impact of Printer Cartridges

Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone!
In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent annually!
In one year, if the world’s discarded cartridges were stacked end-to-end, they would circle the earth over three times.
A laser cartridge thrown into landfill can take up to 450 years to decompose. Some components made of industrial grade plastics will take over a thousand years to decompose.
Every remanufactured cartridge saves nearly 3 and 1/2 pounds of solid waste from being deposited in landfills.
70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are currently being thrown out.
It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge.