Building a better future- Toshiba’s focus on the environment

Toshiba has made a global commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility. This covers all aspects of our operations, from hiring policies through to environmental activities.  Toshiba has partnered with Close the Loop, Inc., as part of our commitment to the environment and to our customers. Now Toshiba customers can recycle spent imaging supplies and turn a growing problem into an innovative solution.

Millions of inkjet and laser printer cartridges are used in the US each year, with approximately 95% of used cartridges going to landfill. This convenient solution is not sustainable and we must all acknowledge the importance of the problem if we are to find a positive alternative strategy. Many accept that sending waste to landfill is not a long-term solution as it just leaves the problem for the future generation to deal with.

Highly resistant to degradation, the plastic and metal components of cartridges in a landfill site can last for as long as 1000 years. Toshiba’s toner cartridges recycling partner is Close the Loop Inc (CtL), a company that is leading the world in this specialized field of resource recovery and reuse. They have developed a process that takes cartridges, breaks them up, separates and recovers the metallic component materials and then blends and reprocesses the various mixed plastics remaining on site.