Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Apr 1st, 2010
Some original equipment manufacturers have a cartridge send back program where you can put your cartridges in a prepaid envelope and then drive to the post office to send it back. Your package then goes to the central postal office via truck and then on to its final destination. I wonder how many miles a new cartridges travels to get to your local retailer and then how many to get back. Is this environmentally friendly? I think not.
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Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Mar 9th, 2010
Saving You Money at Newmarket Cartridge World If you have ever worked in an office you know how great a laser printer is. Great quality, reliability and quick prints. We have seen many of our residential customers move to laser printers for their home, when they do not care to have color but do want [...]
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Posted in business, environment on Feb 23rd, 2010
A black inkjet cartridge refill could cost $12 for a 200 page yield, while a remanufactured toner cartridge could cost $55 for a 2,000 page yield, now that’s a huge difference!
Another benefit of using a toner cartridge is that you don’t run into drying up issues or blockages on print heads which can occur in cartridges for inkjet printers.
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Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Jan 12th, 2010
Refilling ink and toner cartridges is not a new phenomenon. The original founders of Cartridge World started their journey in Adelaide, Australia about 20 years ago. That lead to franchising and currently there are over 1,600 locations is over 35 countries. Many others were also experimenting at the same time. Trial and error and experimentation from these pioneers over the last 2 decades has lead to advanced techniques and outstanding quality making refilling/remanufacturing products, components and services a multi-billion dollar industry.
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Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Dec 2nd, 2009
Refilling is the most environmentally responsible way to re-use a cartridge and reduce its carbon footprint. Most cartridges are manufactured overseas. The cost of getting a new cartridge to you in North America is a tough one on the environment. Some people send their cartridges back to the manufacturer in those bags they provide, but even this is an extra cost to the environment. Keep your cartridges local, have them refilled locally and reduce the carbon footprint. Every recycled laser cartridge saves landfill sites approximately 1.5kgs of solid waste. Did you know cartridges in landfill can take up to 450 years or more to decompose?
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Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Nov 10th, 2009
If you were to take a guess at what percentage of printer users still throw out their printer and toner cartridges, what would you say? 30%, 65%, 80%? Would you be shocked to find out that 80% of users still throw their cartridges in the garbage? Did you know that most printer cartridges can be [...]
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Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Oct 15th, 2009
THINK GREEN AND SAVE SOME GREEN! Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. I am Karen Thompson, owner of Cartridge World Newmarket. Since July 2005 we have been helping consumers and businesses reduce environmental waste. We refill and remanufacture ink and toner printer cartridges. Besides the green aspect, there are great savings to enjoy when [...]
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