China's printer consumables recycling
Working in hospitals, the recent concern about Mr. Tang thing is how to deal with at home have been spent cartridges inside the printer. Acquaintance he met on the inquiries, hoping to find a reliable recovery of business, not only can guarantee that the used cartridge does not pollute the environment, but also to ensure that the cartridge is not illegal traders closed gone shoddy resale.
A similar way of thinking Mr. Tang is now a broad consumer base in China, where not an isolated case. If you go back several years, the used cartridges are often users waste a throw over. Consumers waste disposal cartridge change in attitude reflects the growing environmental awareness of Chinese consumers to upgrade.
In recent years, the penetration rate of printers in China, rising at an alarming rate, whether it is run out of ink or toner in the life cycle will be faced with how to deal with problems. If you discard spent cartridges directly into the nature, the residual ink in the ink will soil and water pollution. Some media reported that in 2008 China produced the number of discarded cartridges have been more than 45 million, more than 4 million cartridges. Such obsolete supplies if you can not successfully recovered, will become a major source of pollution environment.
Judging from the current point of view, ink manufacturers are placing greater emphasis throughout the production process in the environmental issues. Recently, this reporter in Tianjin Epson Co., Ltd. supplies factories can see, this is located in the more prosperous sections of the plant in the city is very quiet and clean, all the cartridges have strict production processes, have developed processes and operating standards, avoiding the source of pollution problems. At the same time, this plant has also established a dedicated cartridge recycling plant. Waste ink cartridges back here, according to different material properties to break it down, destruction or recycling of science. The plant of the Japanese head of Yuki Hill, general manager of the briefing, in the last century, 30,40 years, the Japanese made some significant impact on the environmental hazards incident prompted the Japanese government put great efforts to carry out environmental protection, these efforts have run through all sectors of the production chain.
In fact, in recent years in government and society's great publicity, advocacy, China also printer supplies all walks of life itself, given the environmental pollution problems caused by more and more attention. China's "Electronic Information Products Pollution Control Regulations" and "electronic information products, toxic and harmful substances in limited request" is also made of green environmentally friendly products strict rules, if an enterprise is the production of green products, you can identify "e" logo. According to Kajiyama, general manager of introduction, March 1, 2007 after the production of Epson brand ink cartridges, ribbons are marked on the product packaging are green and healthy "e" logo.
At present, the printer business in China and abroad have also carried out recycling operations, such as the Epson since 2001 in the country to establish genuine consumables recycling outlets, free of charge recycling discarded cartridges, we are faced with customers is the way to implement sign pick to encourage users to attention to environmental protection. Some printer manufacturers also established their own boutique dedicated ink cartridges, cartridge recycling bins.
But so far, the printer cartridge recycling supplies manufacturing enterprises accounted for only a small percentage of waste ink cartridges, which is China's environmental protection work of the major challenges. Many consumers to reflect, spent cartridges, do not know where to send or to reflect the recovery of very convenient way to objectively impeded the recovery of used cartridges.
Clearly, relying solely on the strength of a business is not enough, while some international experience, which China should learn from. According to media reports, in April last year, the Japanese market six largest printer maker Epson, Brother, Canon, Dell, HP and Lexmark and the Japanese postal system, to take advantage of the 3638 post offices throughout Japan recycling of used printer cartridges. It can be used by the six companies that produce cartridge recycling bucket back into the post office. This is obviously a greatly facilitate the people's environmental protection efforts.
In addition, insiders believe that China should strengthen against the ink cartridges, toner cartridges and other supplies recycling legislation to promote the related consumables in the production, use, recycling and other aspects of the complete specification management mechanism. Support paid by the printer manufacturers against waste cartridges, toner cartridges for recycling and environmental initiatives to consumers a way to reward the one hand, the effective promotion of national awareness of the environment to further enhance the other hand, the fight against counterfeiting and other illegal business practices, thus creating supplies a healthy and orderly environment for recovery and recycling.
