Olympic Printer Resources estimates it prevented 56.8 tonnes of cartridges from being thrown away.
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal reported on the company’s announcement that it had prevented 56.8 tonnes of inkjet and toner cartridges from being sent to landfill, with Olympic Printer Resources collecting empties from customers, military basses, hospitals and financial institutions “around the Puget Sound region”.
The company added that 53 percent of the tonnage “was actually reused in remanufacturing toner cartridges”, according to its response to Washington State’s 2013 Recycling Survey, which is reported to the state’s Department of Ecology.
Erik Petersen, the company’s Vice President of Operations, stated: “If you throw a toner cartridge in the dump and dig it up 10,000 years from now, the metal components will have corroded away but the plastic portions would still be intact. Our remanufacturing efforts recapture a large fraction of all the resources, the equivalent to three quarts of crude oil, used during the cartridge’s original production.
“Our quality remanufactured products are 100 percent guaranteed to meet the specifications of a newly manufactured cartridge, but at a much lower cost.”
President Jeff Petersen added: “Since 1993 we have been committed to supporting our local economy by providing quality products at reasonable prices. Olympic Printer Resources is a veteran-owned small business that employs 10 people who are paid living wages and benefits who spend their paychecks in our area.”
The company previously partnered with a local US Air Force base in August last year; celebrated over one million sales in November 2012; revealed it hires war veterans in May 2012; and expanded via an acquisition in October 2011.