Roland DG Australia, in partnership with Close The Loop, recently recycled 1612kgs of Roland Ink Cartridges.

As part of its Cartridge Recycling Program, Roland DG collects empty ink cartridges returned by customers, and delivers these empty cartridges in bulk to Close the Loop to recycle, with zero waste, to landfill.

As an important part of Roland DG’s commitment to the environment, the Cartridge Recycling Program was launched in 2008. With industry estimates that over 1 billion ink jet cartridges are used worldwide every year, and in 2009 that number exceeded 2 billion, Roland DG's Cartridge Recycle programme (CR) is a crucial initiative for the industry and the environment. All of Roland DG’s cartridges can be recycled, including ECO-SOL MAXTM, EcoXtreme and EcoXtreme LT cartridges.

Close the Loop was founded in late 2000, with the specific goals of recycling toner and inkjet cartridges with zero waste to landfill, and returning the raw materials back to the original manufacturer for reuse in new printers and cartridges. Close the Loop provides these services to OEM’s, co-ordinating takeback from countries right around the world for state of the art recycling and resource recovery at our facility in Melbourne, Australia.

Roland DG’s environmental pedigree started a long time ago, and in 2003 Roland DG revolutionised the digital ink jet print industry by introducing ECO-SOL Inks. Breaking new ground, Roland’s eco-solvent inks finally eliminated harmful VOC’s that required expensive and cumbersome ventilation extraction units. At the end of 2005 Roland DG released the second-generation eco-solvent inks, ECO-SOL MAXTM. ECO-SOL MAXTM retained all of the attributes of the original inks, with the added refinements of faster drying times, reduced costs, an even wider gamut, extremely high colour density, supreme durability and of course no harmful VOC’s.

With Roland DG’s commitment towards a cleaner, safer and an environmentally responsible workplace, the ECO labelling system was introduced in 2007. Roland DG is committed to ensuring that Roland products meet strict environmental guidelines such as: the prevention of global warming, the use of recyclable resources, the increase in environmental awareness and finally to disclose information on the environmental aspects of the product.

“By using Roland OEM inks you are getting a lot more than just the best quality inks on the market, you also get access to premium services such as the Cartridge Recycling Program” said John Wall, from Roland DG. “This is an excellent program to take advantage of and do your bit for the environment.”

By visiting or sending your empty cartridges to Roland DG’s Sydney or Melbourne office, any authorised Roland DG dealer or Authorised Service Agent in Australia you can do your part to help the environment and assist Roland DG Australia in attaining our own goals for the environment. That’s all you need to do, Roland DG will do the rest.

For more information on the Roland Cartridge Recycling Program visit www.rolanddgcare.com.au/recycle or contact Roland DG: Australia on -1-800-500-119.

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