June 1, 2007
Toner Plus Solutions is committed to implementing the most advanced environmentally responsible solutions for the recycling of empty inkjet cartridges, laser toner cartridges and cell phones. Partnering with Toner Plus Solutions offers professional recycling programs that are proactive in addressing key customer concerns:
1. Risk Management - Our NO LANDFILL policy eliminates potential environmental risks for customers who require proper disposal for all collected cartridges.
2. Corporate Policy - most customers have the need to align with a recycling organization focused on preventing and reducing the build-up of waste in our nation's landfills and those across the world.
3. Recycling done in North America - All printer cartridges and cell phones returned to CORE collections centers stay in North America and are recycled North America.
4. Active environmental involvement - CORE maintains an active role in the National Recycling Coalition and through its membership in the Illinois Recycling Association.
The CORE Advantage:
Empty inkjet cartridges, laser toner cartridges and cell phones are returned to one of Core's three North American Recycling Centers for sorting and grading.
All qualified cartridges are reused within the remanufacturing process to produce inkjet and laser toner cartridges which significantly reduce the need for using additional natural resources.
Cartridges that cannot be remanufactured due to damage, defect, or having been previously remanufactured, are completely disassembled to the base components are handled as follow by the Core Waste Recycling Facility:
Plastics - Wiper blades, scrap inkjet cartridges are provided to recyclers for melting down and forming park benches, garbage cans and other items.
Aluminum - The OPC drums are collected from each cartridge and sold to aluminum scrap recyclers.
Corrugated - All corrugated packaging is compressed into baler machines, located on-site and the tightly compressed bales are picked up by corrugated recyclers.
Steel - the metal pieces, such as screws, pins, blades and magnetic rollers are made available to scrap metal recyclers.
Polystyrene - To further support Cores NO LANDFILL policy, grinding machinery has been installed in the Waste Recycling Facility to grind the hard shell polystyrene scrap cartridges into ground material that can be reused within the injection molding manufacturing process.