Recycling printer cartridges is the best thing you can do to save more while saving the earth! Using re manufactured laser printer toner cartridges and re manufactured printer ink cartridge is like investing into your health or in your child’s future. Why? In acquiring materials to produce our re manufactured cartridges, our efforts have helped redirect more than 300 tons of waste from the landfill. It’s easy to see how printer cartridge recycling lets you have a cleaner environment while bringing you more savings.

Although recycling printer cartridges has grown in popularity in recent years, as much as 70% of all discarded ink cartridges and 50% of all discarded toner cartridges are still not recycled. They go straight to the landfills where they decompose only after 450 to 1,000 years. This adds to our litter and may eventually leak and pollute the environment even more.

Pyrolaser gives you the opportunity to do your share in saving the earth. We accept laser toner cartridges for recycling. You may request shipping label to send us your empty ink jet cartridges.

Starting September 1st 2011, schools will be getting more money from Pyrolaser.

Since the money we pay for empty cartridges often acts as a fundraiser for ecological projects, we’ve decide to make things even more interesting.

For every dollar paid out for empty printer cartridges, Pyrolaser will add a 15% bonus. As an example, when a school sells us $100 worth of cartridges, we will add an other $15.

It’s our way of encouraging green projects driven by students.

See you all in September!

Chris

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Advance file photoThe Staten Island Mall will be the site for an electronics recycling event on Saturday.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Want to get rid of that obsolete computer equipment, analog TV or old cell phone or pager?

There isn’t an app for that, but there is a solution.

The Staten Island Electronics Recycling Collection Day will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Staten Island Mall, New Springville.

The event will be held in Parking Lot F, near the main entrance at 2655 Richmond Ave.

Electronics from households and small businesses (fewer than 50 employees, please call ahead), as well as not-for-profits, are being accepted.

Folks can recycle unwanted or broken electronics, such as computers (laptops, desktops, servers, mainframes), computer monitors, printers, scanners, fax machines, copiers, network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.), peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, etc.), components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.), TVs, VCRs and DVD players, audio-visual equipment, cell phones, pagers, PDAs, telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.).

Home appliances, such as microwaves, refrigerators and air conditioners, will not be accepted.

The event is being put on by the Lower East Side Ecology Center in conjunction with the Staten Island Mall/General Growth Properties. Sponsors are Panasonic, Toshiba, Consolidated Edison and MRM.

E-waste not to be put in with trash Journal Review Journal Review Online |

Throwing out-dated electronics into the regular trash is not only considered environmentally negligent, but it is a violation of state law.

The Indiana Electronic Waste Program, which took effect Jan. 1, makes it illegal to knowingly mix electronic devices, or e-waste, such as computers, printers or televisions, with other waste intended for disposal at a landfill or an incinerator.

E-waste accounts for 70 percent of the overall toxic waste in landfills. In addition to valuable metals like aluminum, electronics often contain hazardous materials like lead and mercury. When placed in a landfill, these materials (even in small doses) can contaminate soil as well as drinking water, said West Central Solid Waste District director Jane Colilisi.

Back before plasma screens and liquid crystal display tubes, televisions were made with cathode ray tubes. Approximately 20 percent of CRTs are comprised of lead (up to 8 pounds per unit).

While a cell phone may not contain as much toxic material as larger electronic devices, its shelf life is only about 18 months for the average consumer. With new products coming out all the time, it’s estimated there are more than 500 million used cell phones ready for disposal.

Cell phone coatings are often made of lead, so if these 500 million phones are disposed of in landfills it will result in 312,000 pounds of lead released. However, the most hazardous component of a cell phone is the battery. Cell phone batteries were originally composed of nickel and cadmium. Cadmium is linked to lung and liver damage.

Besides CRT (lead) found in computer monitors, many laptops have a small fluorescent lamp in the screen that contains mercury, a toxic material when inhaled or ingested.

Mercury also is contained in computer circuit boards, which include lead and cadmium. Circuit boards can feature batteries made of mercury as well as mercury switches.

In 2005, almost two million tons of e-waste ended up in landfills. While toxic materials comprise only a small amount of this volume, it doesn’t take much lead or mercury to contaminate an area’s soil and water supply.

So what can be done?

Each year, the WCSWD sponsors tox-away events in Putnam, Montgomery and Parke counties. These collection events give district residents an opportunity to properly and safely dispose of household hazardous waste, e-waste, tires, appliances and more. To learn more, check out the website www.westcentralswd.com.

District residents are welcome to attend any or all three county events from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Businesses and large quantity generators are prohibited from using these events and can contact NuGenesis at 800-487-1010 or the state’s website at www.in.gov/recycling/5698.htm for more information.

In Montgomery County, Tox-away day is planned for June 25 at North Montgomery High School. Area residents also may use Walden Transport & Recycling, 302 S. Oak St., and Appliance Outlet (semi-trailer at the former landfill on Whitlock Avenue), to recycle appliances, e-waste, cardboard and packing Styrofoam. In Parke County, Tox-away day is planned for Oct. 1 at the fairgrounds. In Putnam County, Tox-away/Clean Sweep Day is May 21 at the fairgrounds.