Recovering ink 0.4 g at a time for zero waste to landfill

摘要

A new closed-loop recovery system that mines ink from used ink-jet and toner cartridges 0.4 g at a time has earned BCM Inks USA, Inc. and its partner, Close the Loop Ltd., USA , a Gold award in the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. In April 2012, Close the Loop, an Australian company with a Hebron, KY, branch that recovers and recycles imaging consumables, approached BCM about developing a product that could utilize the liquid ink left over from the nearly 30 million ink-jet and 10 million toner cartridges it collects each year.