Returns for recycling

75 million toner cartridges and 57 million ink jet cartridges get thrown away each year and end up in landfill sites or are incinerated.

Empty printer cartridges contain residual toner powder, the plastic casing, aluminium and other parts.

These parts are all non-biodegradable and are filling up our landfill sites. It is estimated that inkjet cartridges will take about 1,000 years to decompose in landfill sites.

It can take up to 3.5 litres of oil to make just one printer cartridge. That means that in less than one year, recycling cartridges in Europe could save more oil than the 11,000,000 gallons spilled by the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.

Remanufacturing cartridges, instead of producing new ones, currently reduces world demand of oil by 300,000 barrels and saves 17,000 tons of aluminium as well as 10,000,000 tons of timber.

We encourage you to send us back the empty cartridges.

To have your empty cartridges professionally recycled, please send them to:

European Office Systems Lager

Attn: Mr. Atliger

EOS European Office Systems GmbH

Virchowstr. 17-19

22767 Hamburg

Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 40 32024-550