Here you will know why ....
Toners, ink jet cartdriges are made of plastic, depends of the type of plastic could take up to 600 years to degrade.
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A laser toner cartridge can take up to 450 years in a landfill to degrade, every year over 300 million cartridge of a weight of 150 million pounds ends into the landfills, that can give you an idea of the problem.
It should be recycle to control the amount of those ending into the landfill. Many or not so all, have this kind of problem that those landfills gets fills up to a point that needs to be close. Imaging in an island sonner or later they are not be able to handle their waste and have to implement different methods to handle it or send it to other countries that can. Who you think is going to paid for it on the long run. It not your pocket that is going to suffer also your health and the health of your offspring. Recycle, Recycle is the solution.
Degrading takes more than 4 to 6 generations.
Local and Federal regulations requirements. Business are reliable responsible for their waste even after disposal.
To protect the environment and health, because of the toxic elements contained.
To protect our future generations
