Recycle Toner Cartridges to Reduce Electronic Waste

The Basil Action Network(BAN) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition release and environmental investigation revealing that huge quanities of hazardous electronic waste (E-Waste) are being exported to China, Pakistan and India where they are processed in operations that are extremely harmful to human health and the environment.

BAN recommends that consumers purchase products that utilize some of the emerging technologies that reduces E-Waste, such as remanufacturered laser printer toner cartridges.  For over ten years, Laser Lightning, LLC has remanufactured tens of thousands of toner cartridges for their customers and reduced E-Waste by recycling spent toner cartridges.

The entire BAN report, "Exporting Harm, The High - Tech Trashing of Asia", press releases and photos may be found at the web site, http://www.ban.org/main/campaigns.html.

Man sweeping toner out of printer cartridge.  Toners are made of carbon black - a class 2A carcinogen (IARC).  The toner billows in his face all day long without respiratory protection of any kind.  Cartridges are later dumped by the river.  Guiyu, China.  December 2001.  Copyright Basel Action Network.

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