Recycling benefiting Dayton Childrens Hospital.

---

Empty or full, ink and toner cartridges.  These items are placed on pallets and shipped to a re manufacturer who purchases them refill and resell. 

Incredible Stats & Facts

• 60 – 80% of all used toner cartridges go directly into trash cans and end up in landfill.

• 1000 YEARS is how long it takes for a print cartridge to fully decompose in a landfill site.

• 350 MILLION Worldwide is the annual amount of print cartridges disposed of in landfill sites.

• 70% of the non recycled cartridges exist in the U.S.
• 
  

• 9599 kilograms of aluminum
• 40 tons of plastic
• 1,000,000 liters of oil
• 12% PER YEAR is the annual growth rate of non recycled print cartridges

 Computer Equipment.  We accept all forms of computer equipment working or not.

(monitors, towers, laptops, printers, scanners, software, APC units, etc.) 

Items that do not work are broken down into the various components such as plastic, metal, wire, glass, and circuit boards.  These items are shipped to smelting factories that purchase or accept them for recycling. 

 Electronics.  We accept all forms of electronics working or not.  (radios, speakers, TVs, VCRs, copy machines, type writers, projectors, etc.)  Electronics are broken down the same as computer equipment. 

Batteries.  We accept car batteries, laptop batteries, APC batteries, marine. (Unfortunately we do not at this time have a source to recycle "Home use batteries." AA, AAA, C, D, etc.)

 Appliances.  We accept all forms for appliances working or not.  (refrigerators, stoves, freezers, AC units, toasters, microwaves, washers, dryers, lawn mowers, etc.)  Appliances are broken down the same as computer equipment.