• It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge.
• 70 percent of used printer cartridges throughout the world are currently being thrown out.
• Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone. That's over 350 million cartridges per year straight into our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent annually.
• A laser cartridge thrown into landfill can take up to 450 years to decompose. Some components made of industrial grade plastics will take over a thousand years to decompose.
It is important that the message gets out to the 70% of printer users who dispose of their printer cartridges.
Recycle and save! Most printer cartridges can be remanufactured, refilled or reloaded. Take cartridges to Cartridge World, or Rapid Refill Inks shops for collection and recycling. You can buy remanufactured or refilled cartridges for substantially less than the price of the name brand ones at these places too.
You hear over and over that solar photo-voltaic (PV) takes a long time to pay back the investment. That is sometimes true, but there are some cases where the pay back can be incredibly short. One of the very best situations it with outdoor solar lighting, particularly street lighting. Where the cost of laying power cables can be outright avoided the cases is very strong for solar lighting and they can pay back the investment in as little as a year. 
