OEM's GIANT PUSH FOR EMPTIES WITH JAPAN POST & U.N.E.P.

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OEM’s GIANT PUSH FOR EMPTIES WITH
JAPAN POST & U.N.E.P.
Brother,
Canon, Dell, Epson, HP Japan, and Lexmark to kick off support for UNEP
Brother,
Canon, Dell, Epson, HP Japan and Lexmark announced on March 23 that, as
part of their Ink Cartridge Homecoming Project, a collaborative effort
to collect used consumer ink cartridges, the six companies would begin
making donations to the United Nations Environment Programme on April 1,
2010. “The Ink Cartridge Homecoming Project, launched in April 2008, is
a cooperative effort by six print device manufacturers and the Japan
Post Group to collect used ink cartridges. The project was started with
the belief that companies marketing inkjet printers have a social
responsibility to recycle used ink cartridges and should work towards
the creation of a recycling-based society through conservation efforts,”
Canon informs.

Representing a new facet of the Ink Cartridge
Homecoming Project, the six companies will provide UNEP with donations
to support its various activities targeting such global environmental
issues as global warming, climate change, threats to biodiversity, and
the efficient use of resources. By providing indirect assistance to UNEP
activities, including forest protection and biodiversity conservation,
the project will attain a higher level of social significance and take
an increasingly active approach in global environmental protection.
 
Every
six months, the Ink Cartridge Homecoming Project will make a donation
to UNEP of three yen for every ink cartridge returned to any of the ink
cartridge collection boxes installed at 3,639 major post offices and
select local government offices across Japan. The first donation period
will run from October 2009 to March 2010, with subsequent donations to
be made every six months thereafter.

The six companies would like
to ask its customers to help promote ink cartridge collection and
recycling in an effort to contribute to society through donations to
support UNEP’s environmental conservation activities.The Ink Cartridge
Homecoming Project’s UNEP donation activities will be featured at the
Ink Cartridge Homecoming Project booth during the Interactive Fair for
Biodiversity, which will be held concurrently with the 10th Conference
of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) in
Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, from October 11 to 29, 2010.This marks
the first time for the private sector in Japan to contribute to
environmental conservation activities in the Asia-Pacific region through
donations to UNEP, an indication of UNEP’s strong support for the
project’s cause and content.

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April 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM