In celebration of Earth Day, today Lexmark released the findings of a Life Cycle Assessment that looked into the environmental impact of discarded toner cartridges. Finding that sending a used toner cartridge back to Lexmark for recycling, as opposed to discarding it in the trash, reduces the overall carbon footprint of those toner cartridges by up to 60 percent.

Not only does discarding old printer cartridges in the trash create an astoundingly large landfill with toxic waste, but did you know that it takes 2.5 quarts of oil to acquire the petroleum product that creates the moldable shell of a printer cartridge. By reducing the amount of waste that goes into the landfill and reusing the old shells, you can reduce the amount of oil that is consumed day-after-day.

Lexmark now offers a free collection program for its ink and toner printer cartridges. On Lexmark’s website, you can request a prepaid return envelope for printer cartridges or print a return label for multiple toner cartridges (remember to save the box it came in) to send them back to Lexmark for recycling. Lexmark pledges that 100% of the printer cartridges it collects are either reused or remanufactured for recycling.

Also celebrated for a company that makes its money by marketing printers and printer cartridges, Lexmark urges customers to print less. “They have made it a priority to educate its customers on what steps they can take to implement responsible printing practices, such as printing less and recycling, to reduce the negative impact to the environment,” said Marty Canning, Lexmark vice president and president of its Printing Solutions and Services Division. They suggest customers print only what they need, use double-sided prints as much as possible, and employ digital document processes and paper-less features such as scan-to-email to share documents. The company also recommends purchasing the highest-yield printer cartridges, which helps cut costs and reduce waste.

Another benefit of recycling toner cartridges is the cost advantage. Typically a recycled toner cartridge costs less to manufacture and that savings is passed on to the consumer. So the next time your in the market for a printer cartridge, Check with your local supplier and try and take advantage of going green. Your children and grandchildren will thank you for it when their not too busy texting.

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Two types of natural sweets that peeps are very keen on. There are extremely sour sweets and jelly sweets. The sour sweets are the jelly sweets covered in icing sugar and can be in the form of sour tongues, strawberry bites etc. Whilst jelly candy has no icing and could be in the form of eggs, milk gums or pint pots. Some fancy one or the other, however there is no denying the fact that we all love a sweet.

I personally tend to be a sour sweets lover, with the sour cherries or the sour watermelons being my favourites. I can literally have them at any period during the day. It could be early in the morning or the last thing at night. However, since we are talking sweets, why don’t we discuss what is the best way to enjoy extremely sour sweets. In my opinion, sweets are the best when bought as part of the snack package when watching a movie at the cinema. Pic n mix really sour sweets in the cinema are the greatest. I have to tell you that I would not go to a cinema if there was no pic n mix lolly selection.

Candy is the ultimate indulgence irrespective of age, we all love a piece of candy.

Start with kitchen appliances. An energy saving house starts off by just decreasing the wattage and consumption of household electrical devices. Instead of utilizing high wattage bulbs, 100 watt bulb for an instance, use lower ones like a 20 watt bulb on non-functioning rooms such as balcony and storage space bedrooms. Lower the temperature of your fridges as it tends to make up to 30% of your energy usage.

Give your residence a correct insulation. Insulating your home’s ceilings and walls are essential when setting up an energy saving house. Not only it lessens up to 30% of your electrical power bills, but it minimizes CO2 emissions as well. CO2 emissions are responsible for the greenhouse effect or what we call global warming. This means that while you are preserving energy, you are in fact assisting out prevent climate change as well.

Use energy-efficient goods. If youwould like to absolutely give an energy saving house a try, then you have to at least replace some of your old appliances such as boilers, furnace, and heat pumps with high-efficiency ones. As much as possible, select those that have an “Energy-Efficient” or “Energy Star” label as they assure to save energy as well as the natural environment.

Plant trees close to your area. Though this appears to be quite out of the ordinary, trees and plants are very capable of reducing down heat, giving shade and cool atmosphere during the summer months. This will enable you toblock off the intense heat that is being developed by the sun. Not only is it a factor of constructing an efficient energy saving house, but it is a course of defending and saving our environment as well. While most people are too ignorant on the ways to lessen electricity bills through an energy saving house, our nature becomes more and more damaged. It is important that we become more aware of the things that can save or hurt the environment.