Sunday, November 15, 2015

How Recycling Cartridges Is Beneficial For The Environment?

By Armando Rodriguez


After several uses every toner cartridge comes to end i.e. it gets empty, and then people consider it useless and dispose it in the nearby dumping area. According to studies there are a lot of cartridges found in the dumping sites every year, the numbers may be in millions. Major part of waste effluents of several countries consists of the cartridges that are thrown out every year.

Recycling cartridges should be a matter of concern. Every second person in this technological influenced era tends to have a computer at home. Almost all of them have their own personal printer. The more a person uses a printer the more number of printing cartridges is used every year. In all total a person uses an average of 3-4 cartridges per year which are considered to be waste after its usage. Recycling the following used cartridges we can have solve two problems. 1. It reduces the waste materials all the cartridges are recycled and new ones are produced from it. 2. It also save lot of money as recycling prevents the production of new cartridges.

Dumping is one of the oldest methods of waste disposal. In this method, a big pit is made and all the waste materials are dumped into it. These results in a number of pollution, such as ground water pollution, the substances also emit greenhouse gases and also spread number of diseases. Recycling printer cartridges also prevents such landfilling of waste materials.

The cartridges contains various toxic materials, the increased usage of printers has increases the number of cartridges in the dumping yard. Recycling the cartridges helps people to use the same cartridges again not only this but it also reduces the pressure on the land. Recycling of printer cartridges also has other positive impacts on the environment.

It is a major concern for the world and recycling is considered to be the best solution to avoid the negative impacts of the used cartridges. There are lot of companies that help in recycling cartridges. They either collect the used cartridge from you or form the dumping yards and recycle it to make new ones. The companies also offer you money and buy the used cartridges form you to use them for recycling. The recycling is also a simple process. Once the used cartridges are collected, the components are separated and cleaned thoroughly and then sent to the remanufacturing industry where it is recycled. The recycling of the cartridges has been done regularly. There is a lot of empty toner cartridges recycled around the world.

It takes thousands of years for the cartridges to decompose. Moreover the ink left in the cartridges seep into the underground water table and pollute it. Encouraging printer cartridges recycling reduces the need of decomposition and also its effect; also the cartridges will be used more.

Used cartridges are one of the major causes of the pollution. Recycling cartridges also prevent land, water and air pollution. Excluding the cartridges form the waste materials prevents a lot of health and environmental hazards.

Recycling cartridges will save tree and in turn increase oxygen level throughout the world. Recycling cartridges has become a major task and an essential need to save the environment. It is the simplest way to support the environment for sustainable development.




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