Why Recycle?
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Recycling reduces the demand on Earth’s limited natural resources enabling us to utilize land for open spaces rather than landfills. When you recycle your printer cartridges and cell phones with Ready Set Recycle you are making a commitment to improving environmental and public health for generations to come.
Civic Responsibility
Ready Set Recycle enables you and/or your organization to stand up and be counted as those who are making a difference. Working within our local community to engage awareness that printer cartridges and cell phones are recyclable and have a monetary value which is both economical and environmental.
You can also be confident that your eligible recycled cartridges and cell phones are re-entering the consumer market as an environmentally conscious and cost-effective alternative to the original manufacturer brand cartridges. Together, we are making a difference by eliminating non-biodegradable plastics and metals contained in printer cartridges and cell phones from entering our landfills.
Ready Set Recycle has implemented protocols for the reduction of office waste as well as waste from the remanufacturing process. We are committed to maintaining a low environmental impact by utilizing FSC certified materials in our operations. We encourage you and your organization to do the same!
A typical cell phone contains materials such as arsenic, zinc, and lead. Therefore disposing of old cell phones is not only wasteful, it’s dangerous. These materials can seep into groundwater and eventually end up in the air we breathe.
Every empty printer cartridge that is thrown away adds more than a kilo of plastic to landfill sites. The plastic discarded is industrial grade and takes more than 1000 years to decompose, leaving behind toxic waste that finds its way into the water table. By recycling your unwanted items you will be helping to reduce resource consumption and climate change.
All of the material put in our recycling bins is sorted in a location in Halifax. The material is then shipped to ISO certified recycling facilities in North America. All of the material is either remanufactured for future use or sent to smelting facilities to be melted down and resources recovered. None of the material deposited in our recycling bins are shipped outside of North America or end up in landfills.
Did You Know?
- It takes about three ounces of oil to make a new inkjet cartridge. Recycling helps lower this cost to a considerable degree.
- In North America, more than 40,000 tons of plastic and metal is saved from landfills annually as a result of cartridge recycling. For every 100,000 used cartridges recycled, we can save 9599 kilograms of aluminum, 40 tons of plastic, and 1,000,000 liters of oil.
- It is estimated that cell phones are discarded after 18 months of use. Cell phones contain many toxic substances that pose a major threat to public and environment health.
Giving Back
Help support local charities. Each time you recycle you will be helping support the IWK Health Centre and Ecology Action Centre. Both of these not-for profit organizations contribute greatly to environmental and health care initiatives in Atlantic Canada.
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