Can you recycle toner cartridges that are all plastic in regular co-mingled recycling?

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According to our copier salesman, our Kyocera toner cartridges can just be recycled in the regular recycling since they don’t have any metal parts. Even though they are empty there is always a little bit of toner left in the cartridge, and he said that this isn’t a big deal because toner is just ground up plastic. Is this true? Can I really just recycle the cartridges in our co-mingled recycling dumpster?

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How do Deep Sea Core Samples shape climate change?

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Please tell me in as much detail how this shapes climate change as I’m a little bit confused and I lack the knowledge, I’ve been searching on google but nothing explains it.

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What happened to the green jobs energy zzar? (Help ONLY, no straight forward answers please!)?

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PLEASE do not give me the answer straight forward but it would really help if you could let me know which website to search around to find out what happened to the green jobs energy zzar (or zaar). This is a first day of school assignment and the answer seems to be a little bit hard to find out. Could you please help me? I really don’t want to cheat and just copy down the answer but I would really like your help. Thank you!

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How bad are hair dyes for the environment?

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I really like bright hair extensions and I want to be able to wear wigs to cosplay. I don’t want to harm the earth though. I guess I could stick to only cosplaying as characters with black hair but that would suck. Do hair dyes pollute the environment a little bit or is it a serious issue.

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Going green, recycling and getting rid of cat litter?

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I am working on doing a little bit each week to help out with the Global Effort. My question is this: I have a cat and when I clean out her litter, I use a used grocery plastic bag. Is there a better way that is more "Green" . I live in an apartment and it is so quick to grab a bad and clean out the litter box. Any suggestions that are more environment friendly?

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