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Samsung Launches Free Toner Cartridge Recycling Program
Samsung makes it easy for businesses and consumers to recycle their used cartridges
IRVINE,
Calif.—-Samsung Electronics America, Inc.’s Information Technology
Division announces the Samsung Takeback And Recycle program (STAR) that
will offer free return and recycling of empty Samsung brand Toner
Cartridges for both business and consumer owners of Samsung’s
award-winning line of laser and multi-function printers.This advanced,
environmentally conscious recycling program safely reprocesses returned
cartridges into their major usable component materials and then makes
those bulk reprocessed materials available to the commodity marketplace
for reuse in new manufacturing for a range of other products. This free
service for Samsung laser printer owners insures that cartridges
returned through this program are not sent to landfills or otherwise
improperly disposed.The STAR program offers two simple, no cost options
for customers to return empty toner cartridges. Select Samsung toner
cartridge boxes will contain a pre-addressed, pre-paid FedEx shipping
label. To return the cartridge, a customer simply inserts the used
cartridge into the empty box from the new, replacement Samsung toner
cartridge, and can then contact FedEx for a free pickup, or drop the
box off at any of the 51,000 FedEx drop off locations nationwide.
Customers also can drop off their shipment at the more than 1,600 FedEx
Kinko’s Office and Print Center locations throughout the U.S.
Alternately, any Samsung laser printer owner can go to
http://www.samsung.com/starus where they can print out a pre-addressed,
pre-paid FedEx return shipping label. The same free and convenient
FedEx drop off options apply if customers chose to print their own
labels as well.According to a recent research study by
Infotrends (www.infotrends.com), nearly half of all exhausted OEM toner
cartridges in the U.S. and Western Europe are thrown out by users and
not returned for recycling. Samsung’s program is designed to be simple
and convenient, with the aim of encouraging printer users to return
their cartridges and thereby reducing the number or cartridges thrown
away and not recycled.The STAR program addresses the final phases of
the product lifecycle for exhausted toner cartridges, insuring they are
collected and reprocessed in a safe and environmentally responsible
manner, thereby minimizing their overall environmental impact and
preventing these empty cartridges from ending up in landfills.“An
important Samsung Green Management objective is to take responsibility
at each stage of the product lifecycle for the environmental impact of
our products,” said Mr. JH Kim, ITD Division President for Samsung
Electronics America, “including offering a completely free and simple
to use recycling return program that provides Samsung users a
convenient way to insure exhausted products are reused in an
environmentally responsible process.“Samsung also offers the EnviroSync
Trade-Up Program for owners of other printer and display brands,
offering customers who purchase energy-efficient new Samsung IT printer
and display products a convenient way to return their old electronic
equipment and ship it to Samsung’s U.S. recycling facilities for proper
processing. More information on this program is available at:
http://www.anythingIT.com/Samsung/html.
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