Cartridge facts
- Did you know that more than 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used around the world every year?
- If you stacked these cartridges end-to-end, they would be 129 times longer than the Great Wall of China! Rather than simply throwing away your empty inkjet cartridges, recycle them with us and start raising additional revenue.
- Over 65 million printer cartridges are sold each year in the UK alone.Of these 65 million cartridges, only an estimated 15% are recycled or reused. So we need you to help us to recycle cartridges and increase this figure.
- Up to 3 pints of oil are used in the manufacture of a new printer cartridge. When you recycle cartridges you can help reduce this figure.
- Recycled printer cartridges cost up to 65% less than original brand cartridges.
- If you recycle cartridges, you can prevent them ending up in landfill, rubbish dumps and incinerators.
- The plastic that is contained within the casing of a printer cartridge can take up to 1000 years to decompose.
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Mobile Phone Facts
- 15 million mobile phones are upgraded in the UK each year, laid from end-to-end they would reach from John O’Groats to Lands End! Some mobile phones contain the most dangerous non-biodegradable toxic substances in the world.
- Around 90 million old mobile phones lie unused in the UK.
- Approximately 91% of all UK adults personally own or use a mobile phone.
- It’s estimated that there will be 1.5 million mobile internet users by 2013.
- Google sells around 60,000 android phones each week.
- There are now 800 mobile networks in existence in over 200 countries.
- Mobile phones are expected to overtake PCs as the most common web access device by 2013.
- Smartphone sales will represent 56% of all handset sales in Europe by 2012.
- 4.5 billion wireless connections are in existence today.
- Mobile web advertising is expected to quadruple by 2014.
- According to the Guinness Book of Records, the fastest text message, completed in 34.65 seconds was sent in 2010 by Frode Ness of Norway.
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