Canon celebrates 10 years of recycling with Cartridges 4 Planet Ark

Canon is proud to be celebrating 10 years of the Cartridges 4 Planet Ark recycling program. This anniversary is a significant milestone, with more than 18 million cartridges diverted from landfill since 2003, of which 4,267,687 were Canon cartridges.

Cartridges 4 Planet Ark is an independently audited program, free to consumers, conveniently coordinated through a network of over 30,000 locations including workplaces, councils and retail outlets. Printer cartridges are recycled into items like pens, rulers, chemical spill clean-up kits and eWood - a wood replacement product for park benches, fencing and signs.

Canon, a founding partner of Cartridges 4 Planet Ark along with other participating manufacturers, has partnered with Planet Ark to ensure the responsible recycling of the full range of print consumables from ink jets and toner cartridges to toner bottles. As a participating manufacturer, Canon covers the cost of collecting, transporting and recycling their cartridges and promoting the program to workplaces and the public.

Locally and globally, Canon is committed to the environment through two key principles: reducing the impact of its own activities and helping customers reduce theirs. The company began the Toner Cartridge Recycling Program in 1990, which has been running successfully for more than 20 years.

In Australia, Canon is involved in several e-waste initiatives. The company is a founding member of Byteback - a pilot end-of-life take back scheme for IT equipment - and also a founding partner of the Australian Battery Recycling Initiative (ABRI) - effective stewardship of all end-of-life batteries. More recently, Canon officially joined the Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP), Australia’s first not-for-profit, industry-run member body established to collect and recycle electronic waste.

Canon believes strongly in the importance of taking responsibility for its environmental footprint and that the industry should work closely together to responsibly recycle their product at end-of-life.