Xerox Green World Alliance
The Xerox Green World Alliance reuse/recycle program for imaging supplies makes up a central element of our strategy to achieve Waste-Free Product goals. This partnership with Xerox customers resulted in more than 3.1 million cartridges and toner containers being returned in 2005, with more than 90% by weight remanufactured or recycled. Xerox also processed 1.5 million pounds of post-consumer waste toner for reuse. The plastic bottles customers used to return waste toner to Xerox – more than 100,000 – were recycled. The annual reduction in the volume of supplies containers returned to Xerox for recycling primarily reflects a change in technology and product mix.

Well Established Collecting and Reprocessing Methods
Prepaid postage labels and packaging from new supplies allow customers to return spent materials to Xerox for reuse and recycling. Return labels for toner containers are available from Xerox upon request or by downloading a pre-paid label from www.xerox.com/gwa.

Returned products are cleaned, inspected, and then remanufactured or recycled. Remanufactured cartridges, containing an average of 90% reused/recycled parts, are built and tested to the same performance specifications as new products. Similarly, waste toners qualified for reuse may account for 25% of the weight of new toner, without compromising toner functionality. The reuse of waste toner saves several million dollars in raw material costs each year.

For one of Xerox’s most popular product families, a closedloop recycling process enables scrap plastic parts from damaged cartridges to be re-ground, re-qualified, and molded into the same parts. These parts, made of 100% recycled plastic, are used in manufacturing new cartridges. Each year Xerox recycles more than 80,000 pounds of post-consumer plastic scrap in this manner.

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