{"id":35256,"date":"2019-05-23T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=35256"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:08:29","slug":"canon-champions-eco-friendly-business-practices-with-printer-ink-cartridge-recycling-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/05\/23\/canon-champions-eco-friendly-business-practices-with-printer-ink-cartridge-recycling-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon champions eco-friendly business practices with printer ink cartridge recycling program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Imaging solutions leader Canon believes one of its missions is to maximize the use of finite resources, so they ensure that their products\u2019 energy-efficient technologies go hand in hand with eco-friendly processes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe at Canon strive\nhard to not just create superior imaging products and business solutions for\nour consumers and partners; we also innovate ways to deliver products and\nprocesses in a more eco-friendly manner,\u201d said Canon Marketing (Philippines),\nInc. (CMPI) President &amp; CEO Kazuhiro Ozawa. \u201cWe have full realization that\nwhat we make may eventually end up in landfills after its product life. As a\nglobal company, we are mindful of our environmental impact and take\nresponsibility by implementing a closed-loop recycling system. We are proud to\nbe the first company globally to recycle toner cartridges since 1990.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canon believes that\nsmart designs and recycling are some of the solutions in addressing global\nwaste and resource issues. As such, they design products that are easier to\nreuse and recycle, which starts from the selection of materials down to\nlimiting the types of plastics used. In the manufacturing process, they\npractice a closed-loop recycling method where the byproduct of one process is\nused to make another product, thereby minimizing or eliminating waste\naltogether. Canon also steers away from printing unnecessary labels and\ninstead, they engrave information directly to the products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Japan in the 1990s, Canon pioneered the recycling\nof toner cartridges. Last year, they celebrated the 10<sup>th<\/sup> year\nanniversary of Project Homecoming, a recycling program that allows people to\nproperly dispose their empty ink cartridges. And to make it accessible for\neveryone, over 6,000 recycling bins were deployed across Japanese cities that\nresulted in 24 million cartridges being collected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Locally, Canon wishes\nto replicate the success of Project Homecoming in the Philippines with the relaunch\nof their ink cartridge recycling program. Together with their local partner\nEnvirotech Waste Recycling, Inc., they plan to transform the collected refuse into\nusable items. In the future, collected cartridges will be given new life as new\ncollection bins, effectively fueling the program\u2019s expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince we started the ink cartridge recycling program here in the Philippines only six years ago, we have collected 7,000 empty ink cartridges from consumers. Our business partners have also been supportive. They have submitted for recycling 99% of the toner cartridges they purchased from us,\u201d said CMPI Vice President Anuj Aggarwal. \u201cIn doing this, we hope to encourage everyone to be more conscious about the environment and to start practicing recycling. By choosing greener processes for our own business and providing eco-friendly options to our patrons, we hope to inspire change in the community and to contribute meaningfully to the nation\u2019s sustainable development,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To meet its goal of\ncollecting at least 30% more ink cartridges and 10% more toner cartridges, Canon\nis encouraging everyone to participate and drop off empty ink cartridges\n(non-Canon cartridges are welcome too!) in recycling bins located in the\nfollowing stores:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Canon Customer Care Center, G\/F Commerce and\nIndustry&nbsp;Plaza, McKinley Hill, Taguig City<\/li><li>Canon Image Square, 4F SM Aura Premier, Taguig City<\/li><li>Canon D-Center, 4F Cyberzone Area, SM Megamall, Building B, Mandaluyong City<\/li><li>Canon D-Zone, 4F Cyeberzone, SM North EDSA &#8211; Annex, Quezon City<\/li><li>Canon D-Zone, 2F Entertainment Mall, Cyberzone, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure\nproper disposal and recycling of its component materials, toner cartridges are\ncollected by Canon\u2019s technical team during maintenance visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canon believes that smart designs and recycling are some of the solutions in addressing global waste and resource issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[315,645],"class_list":["post-35256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-canon","tag-csr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}