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CASA for Children of Bergen County Used Ink Cartridge Drive

Help CASA for Children of Bergen County by bringing your used ink cartridges or old cell phones to NJ Foot & Ankle Center at 550 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell so they can be recycled.  Funding Factory pays CASA of Bergen County for each piece they bring to recycle.

Facts About Recycling Ink Cartridges

  • It takes 3 lbs. of resources to make a new cartridge. This quantity of raw materials is what you save when you recycle one empty inkjet cartridge.
  • The average inkjet cartridge uses 3.5 oz. of oil in its production. Imagine this quantity saved a million times over.
  • It takes 1,000 years for a cartridge to decompose even more when it is inside a landfill. Each year 300 million of these cartridges are thrown away. This amounts to 75,000 tons of trash.
Other items that are being accepted: 
  • Empty

    ink and toner cartridges
  • Old or Unused:  Cell Phones, MP3 Players, Digital Cameras, GPS Devices, Laptops  
  • Printer Paper
  • Binders
Please drop off all goods at NJ Ankle & Foot Centers, Suite 202, 550 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, NJ 07649.  

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