Recycling Systems Around the World
To help foster a sound material –cycle society, Canon is building recycling systems in regions around the world. We are promoting inverse manufacturing (IM), in which used products collected from customers are disassembled and sorted and their parts reused.
Global Return & Recycling System
Various Recycling Activities
Remanufacturing Operations
Canon is remanufacturing used copying machines in Japan, the Americas, and Europe. In Japan we remanufacture used digital MFPs in the “Refreshed” series for the Japan market. Color MFPs were added in 2007 to the “Refreshed” product lineup. In our original remanufacturing systems we throughly clean exterior covers normally difficult to reutilize due to their soiled appearance, attaining a parts reuse ratio of up to 83% in terms of weight. The total environmental burden for all stages until the manufacturing stage has been reduced by approximately 76% in CO2 equivalent.
iR C3200N-R: the first color MFP in the “Refreshed” series
Toner Cartridge Recycling Activities
In keeping with its corporate responsibility, Canon pioneered the collection of used toner cartridges in 1990 as a voluntary measure, even before regulations were established. We started toner cartridge recycling the following year.
It has been 17 years since we started the program and now our initiatives go so far as to include stipulations on green purchasing in Japan. To date, we have collected a total of 190,000 tons globally. All collected cartridges are utilized as reused parts in new products or in material recycling, and now we achieve 100% recovery. Through this toner cartridge recycling program, we have reduced the use of new resources by 110,000 tons and CO2 emissions by 310,000 tons. These activities were honored with the Chairperson’s Award from the Eco-Products Awards Steering Committee in 2007 and the Fuji Sankei Group Award at the 17th Global Environment Awards of Fuji Sankei Business in 2008.
Receiving the Fuji Sankei Group Award at the 17th Global Environment Awards
