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Unused Toner "Discard" Environmental Health Issues
If a business decides to throw away surplus, unused toner cartridges (for example, after upgrading a fleet of office printers), they cannot simply throw them in general waste. Under the UK's Duty of Care regulations, they must handle them as controlled waste:
Surplus unused printer cartridges match the definition of office/commercial items for which the holder has no further use, they are legally classified as "discards" under the scope of the Environment Protection Act in the UK.
It is the responsibility of the owner of unused surplus toner cartridges to ensure they pass them on to a licensed operator able to remove them under the Environmental Legislation, as authorized by the UK's Environment Agency.
This is all fully explained in the site section "Toner-Duty of Care: Know the Law" (CLICK TO SEE)
The health implications of unused toner entering landfilll.
1. Toner powder is a complex engineered blend of plastic polymers, carbon black, iron oxides, fumed silica, and heavy metals, including cobalt, nickel, chromium, cadmium, and mercury which are frequently blended into toner powders to stabilize electrical charges during the printing process.
2. When rainwater filters through landfill, it carries these microscopic chemicals with it, creating a toxic liquid known as leachate. This can easily seep into nearby soil and contaminate local groundwater systems as well as land used to grow food stuffs to feed both the human population and animals that also provide food: Meat and milk etc.
3, The World Health Organization classifies toner powder as a Class 2B carcinogen, mainly due to its ultra-fine particle size (averaging between 8 to 16 micrometers). If cartridges break open under the pressure of landfill heavy machinery, the dust becomes airborne. Workers and local communities can inhale the microscopic particles, which bypass the body's natural respiratory filters, causing chronic lung irritation, allergies, and potential long-term respiratory disease.
Sellunusedtoner.co.uk is a specialist buy back site of Inkviro Ltd., a UK Registered Company. Inkviro Ltd. is registered by the Environment Agency in the UK to recover surplus unused Toner DISCARD under Environmental Law.
If you have unused toner to dispose of, do it correctly here with Sellunusedtoner. We offer a FREE collection service and offer to buy back or accept for charity donation unused toner cartridges with a re-marketable value.
PLEASE NOTE: As a consumable product, every single printer toner cartridge will, in time, become completely worthless. Printer manufacturers are continually competing with each other to bring ever new printer technology to market, making previous generation printers, AND THEIR TONERS, ever and ever quicker, eventually obsolete.
Its important therefore, to ensure any surplus unused toner cartridge DISCARD you have is cleared both quickly, as well as through a fully licensed operative. Otherwise, removal of valueless printer toner may cost you to dispose of correctly under the law!
Surplus unused printer cartridges match the definition of office/commercial items for which the holder has no further use, they are legally classified as "discards" under the scope of the Environment Protection Act in the UK.
It is the responsibility of the owner of unused surplus toner cartridges to ensure they pass them on to a licensed operator able to remove them under the Environmental Legislation, as authorized by the UK's Environment Agency.
This is all fully explained in the site section "Toner-Duty of Care: Know the Law" (CLICK TO SEE)
The health implications of unused toner entering landfilll.
1. Toner powder is a complex engineered blend of plastic polymers, carbon black, iron oxides, fumed silica, and heavy metals, including cobalt, nickel, chromium, cadmium, and mercury which are frequently blended into toner powders to stabilize electrical charges during the printing process.
2. When rainwater filters through landfill, it carries these microscopic chemicals with it, creating a toxic liquid known as leachate. This can easily seep into nearby soil and contaminate local groundwater systems as well as land used to grow food stuffs to feed both the human population and animals that also provide food: Meat and milk etc.
3, The World Health Organization classifies toner powder as a Class 2B carcinogen, mainly due to its ultra-fine particle size (averaging between 8 to 16 micrometers). If cartridges break open under the pressure of landfill heavy machinery, the dust becomes airborne. Workers and local communities can inhale the microscopic particles, which bypass the body's natural respiratory filters, causing chronic lung irritation, allergies, and potential long-term respiratory disease.
Sellunusedtoner.co.uk is a specialist buy back site of Inkviro Ltd., a UK Registered Company. Inkviro Ltd. is registered by the Environment Agency in the UK to recover surplus unused Toner DISCARD under Environmental Law.
If you have unused toner to dispose of, do it correctly here with Sellunusedtoner. We offer a FREE collection service and offer to buy back or accept for charity donation unused toner cartridges with a re-marketable value.
PLEASE NOTE: As a consumable product, every single printer toner cartridge will, in time, become completely worthless. Printer manufacturers are continually competing with each other to bring ever new printer technology to market, making previous generation printers, AND THEIR TONERS, ever and ever quicker, eventually obsolete.
Its important therefore, to ensure any surplus unused toner cartridge DISCARD you have is cleared both quickly, as well as through a fully licensed operative. Otherwise, removal of valueless printer toner may cost you to dispose of correctly under the law!
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