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While Ninestar parades its 2024 ESG report as a beacon of corporate responsibility—highlighting cartridge remanufacturing and workplace safety—there’s a darker, unspoken reality hiding behind the glossy metrics and industry accolades: a global trail of pollution, deception, and unchecked plastic proliferation.
For all its talk of sustainability, Ninestar continues to flood international markets with tens of millions of clones and counterfeit toner cartridges—most of them built from low-grade plastics and chemical-laced toner powder, destined to rot in landfills from Africa to Eastern Europe. While the ESG report proudly touts 20.94 million remanufactured cartridges, it fails to mention the hundreds of millions of new clone cartridges pumped out of both declared and shadow manufacturing plants across China and Southeast Asia.
Worse yet, industry insiders have long whispered about Ninestar’s involvement in silent manufacturing networks—off-grid, often untraceable facilities producing counterfeit versions of branded toners under the radar. These facilities reportedly operate without proper environmental oversight, using toxic dyes and volatile chemicals banned in many Western countries. None of these operations, predictably, are mentioned in the ESG report.
Environmental groups estimate that the non-biodegradable plastic waste generated annually by the clone cartridge industry—dominated by Ninestar—runs into the millions of tons, much of it unrecyclable. And while the company claims global leadership in remanufacturing, its actual exports tell a different story: a sprawling empire built on disposable, single-use products that poison soil, water, and air wherever they’re dumped.
Adding insult to injury, Ninestar continues to benefit from China’s lax enforcement on IP law and environmental regulation, allowing it to undercut legitimate OEMs while evading real accountability. The ESG report brags about a board-level committee and alignment with global standards like GRI and TCFD, yet it completely sidesteps any acknowledgment of the enormous environmental externalities tied to clone production.
Ninestar’s ESG report is not a blueprint for sustainability—it’s a PR shield for one of the world’s most aggressive plastic polluters. As clone and counterfeit toner cartridges continue to spread across the globe, the real cost isn’t measured in margins or ratings. It’s measured in contaminated rivers, poisoned air, and the silent burden we all pay for cheap prints and corporate greenwashing. If ESG is to mean anything, it must measure more than what a company chooses to show—it must expose what it desperately tries to hide.
The full 142-page ESG 2024 report is available for download on Ninestar’s official website.
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