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(1) Cost Savin gs
The cost of a professionally rebuilt laser cartridge is around
60% of the original.
(2) Australian Jobs
The remanufacturing industry in Australia is providing thousands
of jobs and that grows proportionally as more companies use
remanufactured cartridges.
(3) Our Economy
Money spent on remanufactured cartridges stays in our economy,
not sent overseas.
(3) Our Environment
As an industry, we conserve more oil in each seven month period
than was spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound by the
Exxon Valdez in 1989.
The average* remanufacturer restores 338 cartridges per month,
and is therefore saving 999 litres of oil and 383 kilograms
of hazardous waste from landfills each month.
Stacked one on top of the other, a tower of cartridges produced
annually by an average remanufacturer would exceed the height
of the Empire State Building.
For every cartridge that is remanufactured, approximately
1kg of plastic is withheld from the waste stream.
The plastic used in a typical cartridge is industrial grade
and takes approximately 1000 years to decompose.
The manufacturing process involved in making a new cartridge
requires the burning of fossil fuel, specifically oil or natural
gas. On average, 2.8 litres of oil are burned to make each
new cartridge
Due to the lack of valid and reliable data, the effects of
plastic decomposition on groundwater are largely unknown.
*Information from American Remanufacturing Industry Statistics,
January 1998. Australia is just starting to take advantage
of the cost & environmental benefits of remanufacturing.
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