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in selling and refilling cartridges. The chain specialises in taking old printer car- tridges and refilling them, allowing them to be used again, which saves both money and the environment. Every printer cartridge you send to alandfill


can take up to 1000 years to break down, so the service it provides really does make adif- ference. The firm promises that, by using one of the


refilled cartridges, you’ll have just as good a quality of print as if you had used an original -a claim that is backed up by consumer website trustedreviews.com Cartridge World is so confident of their quali-


ty,that every cartridge comes with a100 per cent money back guarantee. The company has also taken part in its every


own Plant aTreenot acartridge (PATNAC) scheme, which plants atreefor every 25 car- tridges saved from landfill. The company has picked up arange of pres-


ARTRIDGE World east London has two branches in Walthamstow and Forest Gate, and has over 10 years experience


tigious awards for both its business practices and its environmental work. These include the British Franchise Association’sBrand Builder of the Year and Best Overall Marketing Operation and the Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management High Street Recycling Champion. Cartridge World was founded 23 years ago


by Australian entrepreneur Bryan Strokes, who saw an advert for cartridges, and decided to start up abusiness refilling printer cartridges in his garden shed. In 1992, Mr Strokes joined forces with busi- nessman Paul Wheeler,and afranchise opera- tion was planned. The company now operated all across the world, and has 220 stores in the UK alone helping people save money and the environ- ment through the wonders of refillable ink car- tridges. When the Science Fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, he could have been talking about Cartridge World.


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