We also carefully manage suppliers that provide recycling and waste disposal
services. An audit process ensures that vendor practices are safe, environmentally
sound and compliant with regulations. We require these companies to document
the final disposition of materials sent to their facilities, including electronic scrap.
Xerox does not allow its vendors to send electronic scrap overseas for processing.
Xerox manufacturing operations generated 22,000 metric tons of non-hazardous
solid waste in 2006, compared to 35,000 metric tons in 2005. The decrease
in recycled/reused volumes is the result of declines in production levels and
more-accurate classification of waste as either “equipment” or “process” waste.
The waste stream consists primarily of paper, wood pallets, plastics and packaging
waste such as corrugated cardboard. It also includes manufacturing-related wastes
such as scrap metal, waste toner, waste batteries and lamps, and miscellaneous
trash. In 2006, 82% of this waste was reused or recycled, compared with 83%
in 2005.
Xerox has had waste reduction efforts in place for many years that include reusable
boxes, pallets and containers for parts delivery, reuse of toner that is outside the
acceptable size range during manufacturing, and reusable totes for recycling scrap
metal and paper.
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