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There will be no other reason, if you really want to do it. This comes to my mind, while i was looking for some earth friendly matters around the net. There are so many recycled materials, creations and innovations that can be found everywhere and all around the world wide web. 

From different ways on how to recycle and how to create useful stuffs from things that some of us considered as trash, down to creations of amazing and very interesting materials that not everyone dares to imagine it could be possible.  Going green doesn't need to be a responsibility, but a self initiative that you have chosen for only one good reason, and that is to save the environment. 

We have various decisions to be made everyday, and i guest there's no harm if we could include being environmentally minded when choosing and making the right decisions.  Great things comes from small packages, that's what i believe. It's also somehow related to the saying Great things comes from small beginnings. We can start making small and simple things that could help save the environment. This will prove that small things can make a big difference.

Get the attitude to go green, even from your households. We all know that most of us are using advance machines and equipment that provides ease to some of our daily tasks. These are the household appliances, personal computers and printer machines. Though it can make our lives much easier, there are still effects both positive and negative from using these equipment. 

It is very common to have  a personal computer or a laptop and a printer inside our houses, as well as the consumable materials that comes with it. One of these consumables are the printer cartridges. Original manufactured printer cartridges are often the best choice for every printer user, but there are also alternative cartridges that are not just cost effective but also environmentally friendly. These eco-friendly toner cartridges or known as remanufactured toner cartridges and ink cartridges are much cheaper compared to original brand printer supplies and are highly competitive when it comes to quality. 

So there should be no reason for us to say that there's no other way to help save the environment. For all you know, there are a lot of ways and reason to have a green healthy living and a more nature friendly society where all of us can greatly benefit as well as the environment.

 
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According to Jim Carter"Solid wastes are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem." 

Environment friendly stuffs can now be found everywhere, resulting to the increase to the number of people that are getting more and more aware of using recycled products. A variety of very useful and eco friendly materials and consumables open the eyes of a lot of consumers on the benefits of purchasing these products, and its great impact to the environment. 

There are hundreds of materials available from your household, to your neighborhoods, and down to your community. Everyone can participate on saving our environment. We must utilize all of the materials that we can get on our hands, to produce environment friendly consumables and materials that others might use. 

We can also find ways to at least decrease the need of manufacturing new materials and instead, promote the production of high quality remanufactured products and eco friendly stuffs. These can be a great impact to our environment by conserving the use of our natural resources like petroleum, minerals, lumber, metals and so on. 

You should know that products and materials made from natural resources that are not recycled nor remanufactured end up taking hectares of landfills. In the US, there is an estimated value of about 60million empty containers of bottled water that are disposed of everyday. If you're one of those in the figures, then think of a possible way to help lessen the number thrown away bottles and other materials that are now invading our landfills.

If you're also using printers in your offices and houses, you should be aware that printer cartridges are great contributors of waste population. What can you do to help decrease the number of empty and used cartridges that are being disposed of everyday? There are some alternatives like using remanufactured toner cartridge or sometimes called eco friendly toner cartridges that are cost-effective and environment friendly. 

There are other materials that you can find to recycle or use for a useful project that may be useful for other consumers. Just always put in your mind what could be your purpose of recycling, who could be your possible consumer or who could benefit to your project, and don't forget to be environmentally minded. 

 
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Paper Recycling
How many years does a tree need to live in order to produce a pack of bond papers? It take several years for a tree to produce hundred sheets of paper material when you can just empty a pack of bond paper in a matter of hours and days. Then after using it you just shred and throw it away to your trash bins, waiting for the garbage collector to pick it up and burn without being recycled. 

Years have past and yet people are still not concern of how to properly dispose and utilize the use of readily available materials they consume. Nowadays every houses in the community owns a personal computer and a printer, thus increasing the demand for the production of paper products and materials. 

The production of paper requires cutting down trees and getting their pulps to create new and fine papers. We can't totally stop tree logging, but we can do a better way to reduce the need for new papers. Paper recycling is the only way to create eco friendly papers and conserve our natural resources. 

Recycled papers are made of recycled based paper and is designed to meet the standards of a quality paper that has been manufactured from fresh wood pulps of trees. Ideal for everyday printing and can also be use for high resolution images and files. If you're using Eco-friendly toner cartridges or ink cartridges for your printers to create prints that are environmentally friendly, why not use recycled eco-friendly paper materials whenever you print. It's like you're doubling the contribution to our environment by using remanufactured toner cartridge or ink cartridges and recycled products, plus you won't be guilty when a tree has been cut to use for paper productions. 

We all need paper for several purposes, but we should also limit ourselves from wasting too much of it. You can't use the reason that papers can be recycled once used so there's no problem wasting it. Everything in this world has a limit, and even paper recycling has a limit, it is when each particles of the material becomes too weak to be mended. 

 
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Eco Friendly Activity
Are you bored this summer and suddenly you just want to use your time on creating useful and eco friendly stuffs? Then here's a great summer project for you and your friends to use your spare time this summer creating a very useful activity. I'll teach you how to create a scented candle lamp out of used tin cans.  


First we need to gather the required materials to start the activity. We need to get used and empty tin cans of various sizes as many as you can, small scented candles, a very common carpenter tool called hammer, nails of different sizes, pens and markers, old news papers, colorful paints, scissors and hand gloves to avoid any hand injuries. Later on you'll know when and where to use these materials, so lets begin.


Of course we need to check the cans if they're fully cleaned and there's no appearing rust on the lid, if you're done cleaning and checking the can you may set it aside. Then get your old newspapers and markers to create your patterns of holes that later on we'll be punching through the tin can. The pattern would be just like creating a constellation of stars, imagine a series of dots that creates an image of a flower, a heart, snow flakes, or whatever pattern you want.   

Once you're done with the pattern, wrap it around the tin can then tape it on both ends. You will use the dots as a guide on where to point the nails and start hammering your pattern. You need a stable surface before you start punching the holes or you can use a block of wood just the size of the tin can and insert it inside to prevent it from deforming once you hammered it. Position the tip of the nail on the dots of your pattern then gently use the hammer to create holes in the tin can. Do this until all the dots from your pattern have been completely punched.


When you're done hammering, remove the wrapped paper from your tin can. To create a variation in color effects, you can paint the inner part of the tin cans using colorful paints and let it sit until the paint becomes dry. Once the paint dries up, light up some of the small scented candles that you brought and put it inside the tin cans. See how the light from the candle sparks and twinkle through the holes of the the tin cans creating flickering patterns. 


Now you have a scented candle lamp that everyone will surely love during the night. Isn't it a wonderful activity to create environment friendly stuffs out of used materials. Just like eco-friendly toner cartridges that greatly helps the environment by producing remanufactured toner cartridge that are cost-effective and beneficial for the environment. 

 
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Annually there a millions or even billions of waste are being dump in the landfills and there's only a small percentage from the population all over the world that are practicing reprocessing and recycling materials. People are not concerned of the effects that are happening on our environment. Every small pieces of garbage that are not properly disposed of can create mountains of waste on spaces that can supposedly be a shelter for a homeless family.

There are strategies and solutions that we can do together to be able to reduce the environment problem that we created. Unconsciousness should be set aside and let yourself be aware of what's really happening due to our own negligence. 

Several consumers are not aware of the hazards that the product they purchase could bring to them when not properly disposed. This results to numerous illegal dump sites that are not supposed to be located near a populated zone. People  just dump their garbage wherever they want, cause they're not aware of the harmful effects it may bring to their families or neighboors and also to the environment. 

For example, a pile of empty printer cartridges that are irresponsibly thrown away to an area near a community, there are possibilities that people from the surrounding area can accidentally ingest the harmful toxins emitted by the cartridge. Though it may not cause some serious problems when you draw some inks on your skin, you can't compare that to the possible trouble when you ingest an ink or toner from a printer cartridge. That is one of the reason why brand manufacturers of printer cartridges like HP, Epson, Dell are building plants for recycling their own products of ink and toner cartridges. These recycled products may be referred to as eco-friendly toner cartridges and ink cartridges.

Recycled printer cartridges are commonly called as remanufactured toner cartridge and ink cartridges. These reprocessed  materials are greatly contributing to the reduction of waste all throughout the world. If more kinds of material are to be recycled and remanufactured, then it would be a great help to our environment. 

Some of our natural resources are preserve from recycling a single material, then what more could it be when not just two or three materials are recycled and remanufactured. The potential of preserving more natural resources will greatly increase over time. All of these are not impossible if we start now to create plans on recycling other types materials and commodities that we often need. 

 
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What's the special thing about recycling and remanufacturing? Whenever a consumer heard of products that are recycled and remanufactured their common annotation is that these products are of inferior quality. Less in all aspects, that's what they usually think with these materials that are recycled. They're not even concern or looking at the bigger picture that recycling can bring to everyone.

Significant savings, cost-effectiveness and cheaper, they're all related and are associated to remanufactured products. What do you get from purchasing these products, if you would ask this question to a number of consumers, almost 80 percent of them will say, they're inexpensive and economical. But try to ask them if they would try using recycled and remanufactured products, you wont be surprise with the result of the poll. The fact is, it depends on the manufacturer, third party scammer = fake substandard products, trust worthy manufacturer = superior quality products that can match with original products.

The need for man power means labor for unemployed. Since companies are starting to build plants for their recyling process therefore they also need laborers, thus creating jobs for the locals. Printer manufacturers like HP are developing plantations for the production of remanufactured toner cartridge and ink cartridges that are environment friendly.

The manufacturing process of creating a new cartridge requires an amount of petroleum. Remanufacturing cartridges conserves our natural resources such as aluminum, water, petroleum and other required minerals because it restrains the need for raw materials. Printer cartridges has a limit to which it can only be recycled for three times or more depending on the condition of the cartridge. Thus some of these eco-friendly toner cartridge and ink cartridges exceeds the certain limit of recycling and reach four to five times more.

Recycling printer cartridges helps on waste management. There are hundreds of garbages being dump on all our landfills, and if recycling a single material means a lot then what more if you recycle millions of used cartridges. Imagine the relief when you get rid of those mountainous heights of thrown away cartridges to our landfills, getting smaller and smaller until they're totally gone.

Can you see the bigger picture now? We should definitely encourage our fellow citizens to promote and practice recycling. From all the materials and consumables around the world only 30% are recycled and the remaining percentage can be seen on our landfills and incinerators. We have accomplish a small percentage of recycled material, what we need is another step to increase this number and have a more green living environment.

 
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Recycling is a good advocacy and an environmental-friendly aid that aims to reduce the mounting volume of waste thrown away. A huge percentage of our population across the world are not fully aware of the facts and benefits of recycling materials and renewing natural resources. 

According to Benefits-Of-Recycling, "Recycling helps extend the life and usefulness of something that has already served its initial purpose by producing something that is useable. Recycling has a lot of benefits and importance not only to us humans but especially to our planet."

Do you know that about 70% of emptied and used printer cartridges are being thrown out as garbage or burned in landfills throughout the world. Focusing on this single source can exasperate few of the concern organizations that deals with waste management. What more if we tackle all the sources of waste that are now populating areas that could be used for shelters for those who are in need. 

It's very easy to recycle especially if you're eager to do it for a good cost. Nothing's impossible if you only have the will. You may start it with the materials that are commonly available in your households or even with your old and used equipment that are thoroughly exhausted. For example, you have piles of toner cartridges or even ink cartridges in your storage rooms, instead of letting them sit there for the next few years or disposed them, why don't you send them back to your manufacturers and let them do the magic, or have a better idea of recycling them into another useful object. It may seem to be just an easy process, but honestly it's difficult.

Our main purpose of doing this is to create reusable and environment-friendly materials for the sake of the environment. As I've said, it is a tough task that needs an intricate process to create the best possible output that we want to achieve. It may not be easy, but Eco-friendly toner cartridge and ink cartridges makes a better way for the printing industry. Recycled cartridges or as often called remanufactured toner cartridge and ink cartridges can deliver comparable performance and quality at a very affordable price. 

You not only conserved the use of natural resources, you also preserved energy that comes from it. The supply of energy that company manufacturers are consuming from manufacturing brand new cartridges is much greater compared to the energy consumption of recycling ink and toner cartridges.  

Set your goals to help the environment and use them wisely to achieve a more eco-friendly living all throughout the world. 
Because if there's a huge percentage of the population that becomes aware of these benefits then cooperation might be the next step that we need.

 
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Waste reduction is generally created through different means, there's this method of renewing natural resources, garbage management and recycling. A huge impact on waste reduction is gradually increasing due to a lot of organizations promoting the recycling of various materials that are still reusable in some other ways. 

It is somehow possible to retain materials into its original form and function instead of going into waste. Recycling is a great form of renewing resources and also helps to manage waste. Does it ever comes into your mind to do recycling, or create a useful masterpiece out of the materials that some are considered garbage? A large attrition in industrial waste was contributed by some printer manufacturing companies that recycles printer cartridges. The good thing about these recycled cartridges is that they still works fine as new ones. There's no issue on quality and performance reduction and they're widely considered as eco-friendly toner cartridges and ink cartridges. 

But there are still fabricated issues and undying discussion as whether these recycled cartridges, or as we commonly call it as remanufactured cartridges. These falsehoods are due to the consumer's ignorance and should also be blamed to the existence of substandard cartridges, generic and fake cartridges that are popping in the market. 

The noble idea of producing remanufactured cartridges which supposedly a better path was ruined by corrupt merchandisers who interfered in the market and distribute shoddy products. These fake cartridges are the ones exposing your printers to high risk problems. The bright idea of the remanufacturers is really to provide cost-effective cartridges for professionals and businesses that are highly demanding to printer commodities. Therefore, when you decide to try remanufactured toner cartridges and ink cartridges, start by choosing which trust worthy retailer should you purchase. Determining the right company from where you will buy these cartridges is where it all begins.

Printer cartridges that are expertly remanufactured can provide the same quality that you incurred from using branded cartridges. They're not just filled with poor quality toners and inks as some of you might be thinking. The drum of remanufactured toner cartridges are replaced as well as the cartridge chips. Broken down parts and components are also replaced, a process which fraud remanufacturers are not paying importance. You might have a second thought of buying these products as you may think at the back of your mind that it may bring trouble to your printers but those are just myths. 

 
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Improper disposal of waste and used materials can harm the environment and any existence that lives in the surroundings. Some materials contains chemicals and toxic that are hazardous, others are composed of broken down components that may cause injuries if not disposed of properly. Junks that are mostly made of plastics are not that easy to decompose thus their life span as a useful material is way too short and live longer as waste.

An example of a useful commodity is the ink and toner printer cartridges. Their functions are entirely utilize till the last bit of a drop inside the cartridge. But since cartridges are generally made from petrochemicals that are non biodegradable, recycling them can be much easier than to wait for several years in order for these cartridges to decompose. It is very worthy to recycle any material that is reusable, you're not only extending the life span of this material but you're also protecting the environment by creating eco-friendly toner cartridges and ink cartridges. One must be knowledgeable of the steps and proper procedures of recycling cartridges as there are harmful elements that may cause a bigger problem to the environment if not properly disposed of.  

If you are not fully aware of the appropriate procedures of recycling cartridges, you may just send them back to their manufacturer as there are few companies who accept return cartridges for them to do the proper way of recycling. If you're not planning to use the cartridge for your printer after you recycled it and you just want to create something advantageous out of it, like for example, you want to use the casing as a paperweight or as a pencil container, you must still follow proper guidelines on how to recycle. 

There are printer cartridges that are remanufactured by third party manufacturers that are professional on the process of recycling ink and toner cartridges. A remanufactured toner cartridge is emptied first from residual particles of toner powders that are left from the container. Recycled cartridges past through a series of quality test and thorough examination assuring 
excellent performance for their consumers. The same thing applies when remanufacturing ink cartridges. 

So you see, it is very necessary to recycle materials that can still be useful and advantageous when recycling is applied with a good idea or for a good cause. You may either come up with a new product that is useful for a different purpose or  boost the life of the material that you're working out.

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    Fiel Mori Promotes Eco Friendly stuffs and creating environment friendly articles for everyone @PrintGreen



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