Cartridge refilling

Almost all inkjet cartridges can either be refilled or remanufactured. Refilling your own ink cartridge can help to reduce your running costs, it also helps the environment by reducing the number of cartridges that go to landfill. Every year millions of empty printer cartridges are needlessly thrown away often going to UK landfill sites near you!  Here are a few good reasons why it is so important to “refill and re-use” rather than disposing of your cartridge to landfill.

* Over 45 million cartridges go into UK landfill sites each year*.

* That’s enough to cover Old Trafford football pitch 17 times or build a second Blackpool Tower!

* Cover the Humber Bridge 3 times! (2,220m x 28.5m)

* Build a replica of the Tyne Bridge! (396m x 17m)

* Stretch the length of Hadrian's Wall! (73 miles) 15 times

* Each cartridge thrown into landfill can take up to 1000 years to decompose**.

* In just 12 months, cartridge recycling could save 15 million litres of oil in the UK.

* Source: UK Cartridge Remanufacture Association, 2006

** Source: International Imaging Technology Council, http://www.consumerchoice.info/faq.htm, October 2008

Convinced? Send your used or unwanted HP, Dell and Lexmark ink cartridges to:

Freepost RRKK-RSTU-ZUXY,

Recycling Department

The Hornsea Ink Shop,

28 Newbegin,

Hornsea,

HU18 1AD

Want to have your empties refilled go to; Viva ink in association with the Hornsea Ink Shop

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