Recycling benefiting Dayton Childrens Hospital.

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Empty or full, ink and toner cartridges.  These items are placed on pallets and shipped to a remanufacturer 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.
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• 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. 

  When we ship out the empty ink and toner cartridges they are remanufactured or recycled.  

If you are interested in purchasing remanufactured print supplies let us know, we have access to almost any type of cartridge, we will try our best to beat your current price, and offer to clean your printer at no charge for allowing us to supply your business, also we will send out a list once a month of new toners that have been collected for recycling through the program and they will be offered for free to our customers.  The profits from our toner sales help to fund our program.

Free Preventive Service for Our Toner Cartridge Customers

When you purchase your toner cartridges from Charitable Recycling, you’ll benefit from Free Preventive Maintenance for the devices that use them that includes:

• Record page count
• Vacuum paper dust and other contaminants
• Check fuser and clean any excess toner
• Clean high voltage and bias contacts
• Clean pick up roller surfaces
• Wipe down registration assembly
• Clean registration rollers
• Tighten or replace screws
• Adjust bias to normal settings
• Vacuum cassette area
• Clean and inspect entire paper path
• Wipe down machine
• Print test pages

These cleanings are scheduled on an annual basis but can be provided more frequently on higher volume printers at your request. Besides the obvious value of having a technician physically inspect and tune your printers twice a year, the specific steps listed above will reduce downtime and repair costs.