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- Three quarts of oil are burned in the production of a single new toner cartridge. A used toner cartridge can be remanufactured up to four times, depending on its type and condition, thus potentially saving up to 12 quarts of fuel.
- Since 1991, one U.S. County has successfully used remanufactured toner cartridges in all departments. In 2001, they purchased 4,765 remanufactured toner cartridges at a cost of approximately $155,500. Since the cost of these cartridges is approximately one third that of new cartridges, these purchases saved the county $300,000 in that year alone.
- In the United States, annual office paper consumption is enough to build a 10-foot wall from New York to Tokyo.
- A single PC with enabled power settings saves enough energy to power a 75W light bulb continuously for over a year.
- More than one million lights decorate the landmark Fort Myers winter estates of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford during the holiday season
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- Remanufacturing toner cartridges helps to keep more than 42,000 tons of plastic, metal and toner out of the waste stream.
- The recycling of one newspaper daily could save 41,000 trees from being cut down!!
- The tech industry produces about 800 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalents, including the production of devices and their energy usage after they're sold, according to McKinsey. With a 6 percent annual growth rate, carbon emissions will hit 1.4 gigatons by 2020, or 3 percent of global emissions. The office is predicted to be an even bigger energy guzzler in the future, consuming up to 20% of any country’s energy.
- The mere act of people around the world deleting spam and searching for legitimate e-mail, falsely labeled as junk, creates the annual energy consumption equivalent to 2.4 million homes using electricity and the same greenhouse gas emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion gallons of gas. If spam filters were used universally, the energy saved would be equivalent to taking 2.3 million cars off the road.
- MFP is a common acronym that stands for multi-function printer. Besides printing, these machines can scan, copy, fax and may even have built-in telephones. These jack-of-all-trades come in handy in offices where space is at a premium. They are also perfect if you want everything done in one place. All-in-One is a synonym for MFP.
- Remanufacturing toner cartridges helps to keep more than 42,000 tons of plastic, metal and toner out of the waste stream.
- Compatible toner cartridges cost substantially less than new OEM cartridges, offer outstanding print quality and have equivalent page yields.
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- By 2010, 52 trillion pages are expected to be generated each year by business alone - a 13% gain over 2005 - at a cost of $160 billion.
- You can calculate your company's total cost of ownership using Kyocera's TCO Tracker.
- More than 197 million HP LaserJet and inkjet print cartridges have been returned and recycled worldwide through HP's Planet Partners return and recycling program.
- You can estimate printer energy, paper usage and more with HP's Carbon Footprint calculator.
- That 1-3% of your annual revenue is spent on printing?
- That 90% of companies do not know what they are currently spending on desktop and network printing. (Buyers Lab, Inc.)
- That OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer?
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