Roland DG has saved 3.5 tonnes of cartridge and associated consumable waste from landfill since it started its cartridge recycling programme last October.

The waste has been collected in Roland DG collection boxes, located in major dealerships at large customer sites across the country.

The materials collected equate to laying 127.93km of TonerPave, a low cost, lower carbon footprint asphalt developed from recycled materials, including the toner collected from within the ink cartridges.

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Greg Stone, product and marketing manager at Roland DG Australia says, “We are pleased to see that our Cartridge Recycle Programme is having such a positive impact on the wide format industry, and the environment as a whole, and that we have been able to significantly reduce the amount of empty inkjet cartridges ending up in landfill. It is great that this waste is not only recycled, but reused, and turned into a range of materials such as pens, rulers, and even asphalt – re-enforcing Close the Loop’s zero waste to landfill philosophy.”

The programme is run in partnership with Close the Loop, Australia’s largest recycling and resource recovery company for imaging consumables, with 100 per cent of every cartridge either reused or recycled.

There is no cost for customers interested in getting involved in Roland DG’s Cartridge Recycle Programme. Roland DG says All they need to do is drop their empty cartridges at a participating local dealer or Authorised Roland service agent. The boxes are then collected by Close the Loop for processing.
 

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