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Eco copiers can look at your current impact on the environment and provide practical solutions to help you be more Eco friendly. This doesn’t need to cost the Earth, as we can look to do this without increasing your current monthly costs. All the products we supply are specially selected to be the most environmentally (Eco) friendly in its sector.

• Each year some 500 million empty or used cartridges end up going to landfill.
• A cartridge in landfill will take over 1000 years to biodegrade.
• To manufacture an original toner cartridge will have taken some 3.5 litres of oil.

The downsides of printing and modern technology when you read the headline facts are frightening. The “paperless” office where we all read electronic documents and do not print has never materialised and is never likely to. Most users still prefer to read printed documents than electronic.

Given that we all print and all use toner and inkjet cartridges, the least we can do is to dispose of them in the most environmentally friendly way possible.

Here are some suggestions to help your office make an immediate impact:

1.     Cut paper use. Print on both sides of the page "duplexing." Print multiple images per page and print only the quantity you need at the time you need it. Saving paper also saves energy: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that it takes 10 times more energy to manufacture a piece of paper than to create another print or copy.

3.     Reach for the ENERGY STAR®. Upgrade old products with new, more efficient systems and the savings add up. For example some new machines can use about 30 percent less than a comparable multifunction system of two years ago.

4.     Replace copiers or printers with products that do-it-all. An office copier, four laser printers and a fax machine can consume 1400 kWh of energy each year. But if one multifunction system can handle your document needs, it uses only 700 kWh annually. Eco Copiers Sustainability Calculator can help pinpoint opportunities to reduce the overall environmental footprint of your office equipment.

5.     Don't throw away empty toner cartridges. Send them back to us for reuse and recycling.

6.     Seek office equipment designed for remanufacturing or recycling. Eco Copiers devices are designed with recycling and reuse in mind. Recycling and remanufacturing programs have diverted more than 2 billion pounds of waste from landfills since 1991.

7.     Use software to simplify the way you use documents. Cut back the time and energy spent on manual paper-based processes with workflow management systems and collaboration tools. For paper-intensive processes like legal discovery or mortgage loan document management, Docushare combined with scan-enabled multifunction devices can help reduce errors and improve version control – and ultimately eliminate the costs of producing, storing and shipping paper documents.

for more on green printing and Eco Copiers go to http://www.ecocopiers.co.uk/greener-printing.html