The Truth about Refurbished Cartridges and their environmental impact!!

Do you know the ecological impact of the printer cartridges you purchase? Use thisTrue/False guide to get your facts about refurbished cartridges and their effect on the environment.

1. Refurbished cartridges supplies reduce landfill waste TRUE

Every time you buy a new cartridge and throw your empty one, you are adding approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic waste to our landfills- waste that will take nearly 1000 years to decompose by itself.  It is estimated that every year 100 million laser cartridges and 400 million inkjet cartridges are produced. Reusing these 500 million cartridges will save an estimated four million cubic feet of landfill space.

 

2. Refurbished cartridges conserve natural resources. TRUE

The plastic use in each new laser cartridge takes 3.5 litres of oil to produce, so every time you will reuse your cartridge, you will save 3.5 litres of oil. Every cartridge can be reused for 4-5 times, so you will save 15-16 litres of oils over a complete life cycle of a cartridge.

3. Refurbished cartridges prevents air/soil pollution TRUE

In India, 95 % of waste is still handled by informal sector who donot have any means to handle the waste properly. You throw cartridges and they get picked up kabadiwalla's who openly burns these waste cartridges to extract plastic and dispose the rest in river.

 

4. Refurbished Cartridges don't perform as well as original OEM Cartridge FALSE

It is sad, that this industry too is dominated by road side refillers ( Who simply opens up a cartridge and fills it with toner)  and these people have brought bad fame to the overall refurbishing industry. Today, corporates often confuse refilled cartridge with a refurbished one.

If empty cartridge is properly cleaned and every parts replaced with quality components by following a standardize process, cartridge is bound to give original like performance.

At Greenvolution, every empty cartridge that is collected for refurbishing is thoroughly cleaned in vacuum filter workstation, rebuilt with all new parts before it roll off the production line.