Cartridge World – Protecting the Planet
Each and every one of us has a responsibility to the world around us. As individuals it is our responsibility to recycle and respect the environment.
As businesses we have a corporate social responsibility (CSR) to operate in an environmentally friendly way. This always sounds costly, but if we make the right choices it is still possible to cut costs, make money, work smarter and protect the planet.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
CSR means behaving responsibly across your entire business and trying to deal only with suppliers who do the same – Cartridge World is one of those suppliers.
Building a reputation as a responsible business sets you apart and that is something Cartridge World has strived to do for many years. That’s why companies which favour suppliers who demonstrate responsible policies choose Cartridge World as their partner and printer cartridge supplier. Our achievements in recycling and environmental practices speak for themselves.
The benefits of this are many, including the positive impact on how they are perceived by customers, which can increase revenue - many customers prefer to buy from responsible companies.
Going Green – Helping your business to reduce its impact on the environment
There are all sorts of ways in which you can reduce the environmental impact of your business. Choosing Cartridge World is one.
Every year, millions of printer cartridges needlessly end up in landfill. At Cartridge World, we are doing everything we can to reduce that impact. We provide an alternative so that businesses like yours can opt for printer cartridges which support sustainable development for our planet's precious resources.
At Cartridge World every aspect of our daily business is focused upon creating a zero waste society. Operating in an environmentally responsible manner has huge benefits on our local economy not just in terms of recycling, but also jobs and education.
Every cartridge refilled is one less cartridge going to landfill - and that's a choice you can feel proud of.
Choose Cartridge World Business Direct and your business can become:
Greener
- Every year the UK disposes of around 45 million printer cartridges weighing up to 28,000 tonnes*
- Each one takes up to 1,000 years to decompose**
- Of these, most can be reused, yet only around 30% are being refilled by companies like Cartridge World
- But, cartridge recycling could save 15 million litres of oil in the UK in just 12 months
- Every business that joins us helps us to reduce this tragic and unnecessary waste of natural resources and landfill space
Cleaner
- And it’s not just the waste we can save – together we can cut CO2 too
- A three month study of one of our stores concluded that remanufacturing just one cartridge saves around 2.5kg of CO2 compared to producing a new one***
- Look at our stores nationwide and that’s a saving of 1,100 tonnes of CO2
- Equivalent to energy used during 900 flights from London to New York
- Or the entire energy supplied to 200 UK homes in a year
- Every business that joins us helps to cut this carbon footprint even further
*UK Cartridge Remanufacture Association 2006
**International Imaging Technology Council, www.consumerchoice.info/faq.htm, October 2008
***Carbon footprints of cartridge production, March 2008.