Waste Prevention and
Management
Our waste-free commitment is to
produce waste-free products in
waste-free facilities to promote
waste-free offices for our customers.
Our aim is to design products,
packaging and supplies that make
efficient use of resources, minimize
waste, reuse material where feasible
and recycle what can’t be reused.
To meet this commitment, Xerox has
put in place several programs:
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Xerox’s Green World Alliance
program provides a collection and
reuse/recycling program for spent
imaging supplies. |
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Xerox’s Product Takeback and
Recycling program manages equipment
at end of life. |
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Xerox facilities manage their operations
to our waste-free commitment as
described in the Environmental
Performance in Xerox Facilities section
of this report. |
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Xerox is investing in waste-free
technologies. Xerox’s solid ink imaging
process utilizes compact, “cartridgefree”
solid ink sticks with no plastic
housings or casings, thereby reducing
office waste by 90% compared with
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Xerox Green World Alliance
The Xerox Green World Alliance
reuse/recycle program for imaging
supplies is central to our commitment
to waste-free products. This partnership
with Xerox customers has resulted in
more than 2.7 million cartridges and
toner containers being returned in
2006. Xerox processed 1.3 million
pounds of post-consumer waste toner
for reuse, and the plastic bottles
customers used to return waste toner
to Xerox – nearly 100,000 of them –
have been recycled. The annual
reduction in the volume of returned
supplies for recycling reflects primarily
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 prepaid 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 that
qualify for reuse may account for 25%
of the weight of new toner, without
compromising toner functionality.
Reusing waste toner saves several
million dollars in raw-material costs
each year.
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