BUSINESS
THE SUSTAINABLE ARGUMENT FOR BUSINESS PRINTERS Printers and ink cartridges are the last bastion of environmental accountability That’s according to Tony Harrison, managing director of Surrey-based Printercare. In 2021, Printercare created a business model that eliminates waste to landfill and saves customers money. In so doing it became a fully sustainable printer supply business.
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THREE REASONS WHY Last year, UK customers spent £68 million on printers. Most of them will end up in landfill. Every year, 65 million printer cartridges are bought in the UK. When empty, 85% of them go to landfill. The polymer they’re made of will take over 1,000 years to decompose. Demand for paper drives 14% of all deforestation. That’s 4.1 million hectares of forest destroyed annually.
