Why Recycle?
Owning a local retail franchise business is different from many other business ventures in that you really do become part of the fabric of the community. Ink Solution franchisees embrace this quality to grow their business and to improve the community they live in.
Many of our franchisees tell us that when they went looking for a business opportunity, they wanted to improve not just their personal quality of life, but they also wanted to make a positive impact. Ink Solution salutes their personal and business vision. We truly believe that doing good for the planet and our communities is the best way to do business.
Being involved in the community not only makes you feel good and helps those around you, but it is good for business. As franchisees are viewed as leading members of the community, whether through civic organizations, trade groups or local charities, a growing business tends to follow good deeds. Community is the opportunity.
Franchisees tell us that our environmental focus and products founded in recycling attract new customers to our stores every day.
Demand for "green" products is at record levels and growing. Ink Solution offers our customers quality products that help protect the environment from landfill waste and atmospheric pollution. It’s a win-win for everyone.
Ink Solution is providing consumers and businesses with an alternative to reduce the impact of millions of cartridges that are thrown away and that end up in landfills each year. By making this choice, you are helping to protect the future of our environment. This proactive solution to waste reduction benefits consumers, entrepreneurs and the environment. Every cartridge refilled means one less cartridge in our landfills.
You can feel good about supporting sustainable development for the planet’s limited natural resources and not adding to our already overloaded landfills. With our continued commitment, we look forward to the day when recycling cartridges is as common as separating waste material for the recycle bins in our homes.
If you are interested in having Ink Solution set up a cartridge recycling program with your business, school or organization, contact your nearest Ink Solution store or contact the Ink Solution Head Quarters to ask for a Recycling Collection Bin.
Facts:
- It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge.
- Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone!
- In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent annually!
- A laser cartridge thrown into a landfill can take up to 450 years to decompose. Some components made of industrial grade plastics will take over a thousand years to decompose.
- Every remanufactured cartridge saves nearly 3 1/2 pounds of solid waste from being deposited in landfills.
- 70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are currently being thrown out.
- In one year, if the world’s discarded cartridges were stacked end-to-end, they would circle the earth over three times.
Every single cartridge saved from a landfill makes a difference. But imagine the difference made when 1,000,000 or even 1,000 cartridges are saved? This will not only protect our environment, but also save consumers thousands of dollars.
Now imagine the difference when individuals, then organizations, then cities, then states and then nations start participating! That is Impact with Effect! At Ink Solution we are not only making a difference, we are changing the world!
It is important that the following message gets out to the 80% of printer users who dispose of their printer cartridges.
- You don't have to throw out your expensive printer cartridges. Most printer cartridges can be remanufactured, refilled or reloaded.
- By bringing your used cartridges to Ink Solution, you can help protect our environment, and save 50% compared to the cost of a new cartridge!
- Ink Solution is dedicated to helping consumers, businesses, and the planet!