Many people associate reducing the miles they drive and fly, conserving electricity, insulating their homes as major factors in reducing their carbon footprint, which they are, but have you thought about how much Carbon Dioxide is used to produce a printer cartridge? When you do you will understand the TRUE COST of that cartridge!

  • more than 40 million InkJet and 10 million Toner Cartridges are dumped each year in the UK alone!!
  • more than 1.1 billion InkJet Cartridges are used annually around the world. Laid end to end this would be 129 times as long as the Great Wall of China!
  • if you dispose of your Printer Cartridges in the bin they will take 1000 years to decompose!
  • the 17 million Laser Cartridges recycled in Europe in 2005 resulted in the saving of 6 million litres of virgin oil!

All very interesting stuff eh!! Thats why we MUST MAKE A STAND NOW, stop burying our heads in the sand as this is an important issue that needs to be addressed.

What is Coll's World?

Well, it is simply a FREE resource for all schools to gain, share and use information all about Carbon Footprint. Activities, ideas, tips, lesson plans and discussion sheets all available as PDF downloads, and conveniently broken down into age groups so you can find what you need quickly and easily!

It is my mission for 2008 to get as many schools to become Carbon Warriors, to get teachers and pupils alike to join me on that mission! I need your feedback, your ideas and photos to put into my world.

Register today and start downloading lots of activities for your pupils - I WANT MORE CARBON WARRIORS!!!!


Who are Lasertech?

Lasertech have been manufacturing and supplying Printer Cartridges for over 19 years. The Lasertech Brand is manufactured using the outer plastic shell collected from the Lasertech Recycling Programme, but replacing all internal components.

They know an awful lot about cartridges, in fact they have always offered a recycling scheme for their customers, that's 19 years!!!

Did you know that still only 25% of Printer Cartridges are recycled therefore saved from landfill? Lasertech manufacture and recycle in the UK, therefore their cartridges have only travelled a maximum of 800 miles, compared to a cartridge manufactured and recycled in the USA which may have travelled over 7000 miles. The difference in the carbon footprint is massive. So think twice when putting a new cartridge in your printer, do you know where is was produced? And what are you going to do with the empty one?

It is due to information like this that makes me determined to make a stand!