Enviroment

Facts:

• In the last decade over 250 million cartridges have ended up in landfill sites or been incinerated, each of these take approximately 1000 years to biodegrade
• 90ml of oil is used to produce each inkjet cartridge and roughly 3.5 litres for each laser cartridge. That means around 1,8 litre of oil, a non-renewable fossil fuel, is conserved for every laser cartridge returned.
• Printer ink costs more than vintage champagne! Manufacturers charge consumers around 2,3 euro per millilitre of printer ink compared to 31 cents per millilitre for 1985 Dom Perignon. 

Environmental Policy

ISCOM SLOVAKIA, k.s. purchases a wide variety of empty toner and inkjet cartridges in order to remanufacture them and create the highest-quality aftermarket imaging supplies. Even those cartridges which cannot be completely remanufactured may have reusable components or may be broken down and recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.

• Laser and inkjet empties are remanufactured and sold to dealers or end consumers.
• Empties which are not in our program are sold back into the market to companies that will remanufacture them.
• All cardboard packaging is sent to local companies for recycling.
• All plastic bottles, caps and bags are sent to local companies for recycling.
• Damaged valued empties are used for spare parts.
• Damaged nil value empties where applicable are broken down to their main components i.e. plastic, aluminium, steel and sent for raw material recycling.
• Damaged or odd sized pallets are sent for recycling.

Here at ISCOM SLOVAKIA, k.s. we believe looking after the environment is of great importance, and we ask for your help in putting an end to this unnecessary drain on the earths natural resources and environmental damage.