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- 29-33 Bathurst Road Orange NSW 2800
Green Policies
Country Business Machines aims to promote sustainable development and profitable growth. We integrate environmental, economic and social perspectives into our business strategies so that our business activities are implemented in harmony with human lives and with the environment in all aspects.
Our concept is to make steady progress toward the resolution of environmental challenges based on quantitative measurement and analysis of reliable data in regard to environmental performance and impact.
Green Features
At Country Business Machines, we’re constantly working to reduce our environmental footprint and improve its efficiency. Here are a few of the earth-friendly innovations we’ve developed to help stay green.
Simitri Polymerised Toner
Today, 99.6% of Konica Minolta’s colour toners and 96.5% of its monochrome toners are polymerized – the highest rates in the industry. Simitri HD polymerized toner has considerably less impact on the environment during its production, use and recycling. Its biomass content is actually C02 neutral during recycling. Konica Minolta’s constant efforts to reduce the environmental footprint of its cutting-edge technologies while improving their efficiency are obvious in various earth-friendly innovations.
Konica Minolta’s Simitri Polymerized Toner achieves an approximately 40% reduction in CO2 emissions during production, as compared with toners produced by conventional pulverization methods.
IH Fixing Technology: Konica Minolta’s Induction Heating (IH) fixing technology reduces power consumption during the fixing process and results in shorter warm-up time.
Optimal Power Control: The power in Konica Minolta devices is optimized for each operating mode, eliminating wasted power. For example, when the bizhub C650 and C550 print from PC or receive a fax, the power supply is adjusted so that no electricity is sent to the scanner or other idle sections.
Duplex Printing: When it comes to forest resource conservation, paper use reduction in offices is important; double-sided printing is an effective means of achieving such reduction. The bizhub C650/C550/C451 realize high-speed printing when outputting double-sided color pages, thanks to a paper feed control system that feeds three sheets alternately. This system offers productivity equal to single-sided printing, and makes it easier to reduce paper use in offices.
Toner Recycling System
Original Toner Recycling: Our original Toner Recycling System collects, recycles, and re-uses toner that is not transferred to the paper during the printing process in multifunction productions. This results in saving 20% of the toner from going to waste without reducing image/print quality.
Outer Casing Plastics: The outer casing parts for every Konica Minolta Multifunction Product are made from the same two types of plastic, creating a closed material-recycling loop for recycling plastics from end-of-life Multifunction Products and incorporating them into the production of newer models. With this process, we have enabled the recycling of high purity plastics, recycling approximately 100 tons of plastics annually.
Toner Cartridge Recycling
Country Business Machines sponsors Cartridges 4 Planet Ark.
Cartridges 4 Planet Ark is a free collection service for the recycling of used cartridges throughout Australia. The program is world-leading in its guarantee of zero waste to landfill from the recycling process.
green_features_3Collection Outlets
The public can deposit cartridges of any kind in specially marked boxes at participating Australia Post, Officeworks, Harvey Norman, Tandy, Dick Smith Electronic and Powerhouse outlets. A full list of collection outlets are listed at www.RecyclingNearYou.com.au
Collection Boxes
To be eligible for a collection box, your organisation needs to use a minimum of 3 imaging consumables (toner bottles, laser cartridges, drum units, fuser kits, inkjets etc) from ANY fax, photocopier or printer per month. Simply complete this form.
About Cartridges 4 Planet Ark
Australians throw away more than 18 million cartridges every year.
This amounts to over 5,000 tonnes of material, including laser toner cartridges, inkjet cartridges, photocopier toner bottles and drums. That’s why we want you to put them in ‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark’ bin, NOT the garbage bin!
Planet Ark is working with Close The Loop®, an Australian hi-tech resource recovery company, to prevent these problems. The recycling technology is so advanced that nothing goes to waste. Almost 60% of the laser cartridges are sent to the original equipment manufacturers for their remanufacturing or component recovery programs. All inkjet cartridges, toner bottles and laser drums are processed to recycle their component materials into new products.
The component materials recovered include aluminium, steel, plastic, toner, ink and foam. All are recycled into new products or reused in new applications. Even residue toner is reused as pigment for colouring plastic products.
For more information visit www.cartridges.planetark.org
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Six Simple Ways to Reduce your Carbon Footprint
Duplex printing and copying saves time, paper and costs by printing/copying on both sides of a sheet
The “N-Up” printing option offers the possibility of combining several pages of a document on a single sheet of paper. If used for draft documents and archiving, this clever feature can help save toner and paper and with that saves resources
Documents can be scanned, saved, shared and distributed electronically. This highly automated functionality saves users time and energy.
Proof-print a single test page or set before printing or copying the whole job. Saves paper, time and money.