Cartridge Rescue™
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Cartridge Rescue™

Cartridge Rescue™ is RTS Imaging’s dedicated empty cartridge recycling service. Established for over 15 years Cartridge Rescue™ has rescued and re-used over 2.5 million cartridges. This division of RTS Imaging provides an important step in our outstanding Environmental Re-Use story.

Our pursuit of zero waste to landfill has been formalised with our certification to the International Environmental Standard ISO14001.

In work towards zero waste to landfill we have set ourselves specific objectives and measures for each waste steam. These include:

  
To ensure a minimum of 90% of all returned cartridges are re-used in our manufacturing process. (Presently 92% is being re-used in our manufacturing process).

To recycle all the unusable aluminium photoconductor drums (OPD). This has been achieved with approximately 25 tonnes per annum being diverted from landfill.

To recycle all unusable flexible plastics, paper and board products. This has been achieved with approximately 130 tonnes per annum being diverted from landfill.

To recycle unusable ferrous metals. This has been achieved with approximately 28 tonnes per annum being diverted from landfill.
Recycling of rigid plastics program has commenced with a third party recycler to convert rigid plastics into recycled products.

Program has commenced with a third party recycler to convert toner waste into recycled products. The objective is to recycle 100% of all toner waste, by the end 2008.



Visit our Cartridge Rescue™ website today to see how you and your customers can benefit from this free recycling and re-use service.