Global industrialisation and the proliferation of industries have sparked many technological advancements that are geared towards making profits and making life simple.
Advancement in technology, however, has resulted in many challenges to the environment. The printer manufacturing industry is not an exception in this long-standing issue.
The United Nations (UN) has consistently maintained that all manufacturing companies must adopt the best production practices that will ensure that their processes and final products will not jeopardise the environment in any way.
How Printers Adversely Affect the Environment?
A large portion of printers in the market are designed in a manner such that, after the ink or toner in the cartridge or drum is depleted, the whole cartridge will have to be removed and replaced with a new one. The cartridges that are removed end up in landfilling sites.
Cartridges are made from plastic: Plastics, when disposed in landfilling sites, take a period of between 400 to 1,000 years to decompose. The decomposition process also releases a lot of greenhouse gases into the ozone layer, as well as other chemicals into the soil.
When cartridges are removed and disposed, printer ink or toner residues usually remain. Printer inks and toners contain Petroleum Oil, Silver, Polymers, Carbon and disease inducing Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) that are harmful to the environment.
Many printers have very delicate designs that make them very vulnerable to breakage and cracks. This make users dispose of them quickly in order to purchase new ones. They sometimes even replace the damaged parts at a high cost.
The environment and the ozone layer are adversely impacted by improperly disposed printer parts, which contain plastic, copper and lead.
Why KYOCERA Printers are best in eco-friendliness
With an objective to produce superior quality printers, KYOCERA’s ECOSYS printers are manufactured with built-to-last components which guarantee that you won’t need to replace any of its parts during the printer’s life-time.
Also, the ECOSYS printers are featured with long-life drums, which have been separated from the toner container. This singular attribute abrogates the consistent need for you to always replace an old drum with a new one once the toner is finished. This is because, you would only need to replace the toner itself.
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Not needing to replace a printer toner once the ink toner is finished frequently, will go a long way in helping you contribute your quota in preventing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing the release of harmful chemicals into the earth, as well as promoting overall environmental friendliness.
With KYOCERA devices, your path to eco-friendliness is already one step closer.
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