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    The manufacturing process involved in making new Hewlett Packard printer cartridges requires the burning of fossil fuel, specifically oil or natural gas. On average, three quarts of oil are burned to make each new Hewlett Packard cartridge shell. 71 million new toner cartridges were manufactured in 1997, but only 1/3 were remanufactured, the rest were thrown away.

    Of the 20,000 landfills operating in 1978 only 6,000 remain. And with every man, woman, and child in this country discarding 4 1/2 pounds of refuse daily, landfill space is dwindling. According to subscribers of World Wastes, 33 percent of the remaining landfill operators plan to close their sites in less than four years.

    As an industry, our ecological contribution is staggering. At our current rate of production, we remanufacture more than 24 million Hewlett Packard printer cartridges each year, and keep 38,000 tons of plastic and scrap metal out of landfills. We save taxpayers more than one-half million dollars each year in landfill expenses. The combined savings realized from landfill costs and oil costs is approximately $14 million per year.

    Just mention the words Exxon Valdez, 1989, and images of Alaska's Prince William Sound, oil-soaked sea otters struggling to cling to life, dead and dying birds, and frantic hordes of people trying in vain to save the coastline are all to vivid and equally horrifying. In that one environmental death blow, 10.9 million gallons of oil was spilled. It was the worst in United States history and in a matter of hours created a cataclysm for indigenous wildlife that will rock the foundation of life as we know it for centuries to come. The volume of the oil spill was staggering and the negative impact incalculable.

    Using that same figure of 10.9 million gallons of oil as a positive, in just seven months of each year, the remanufacturing industry conserves more oil than the 10.9 million gallons that spilled into Prince William Sound.

 As a Nation our environmental problems and tendency toward waste of resources is a national disgrace. We are just now beginning to realize that our government has failed to address these problems and the only way to solve them is at the user level.

If your not interested in remanufacturing your Hewlett Packard printer cartridges for your own use, then please consider sending them to us, or any other remanufacturer for recycling.