Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) sells printing and imaging products and solutions in more than 150 countries and reported $3.9 billion in revenue in 2009. By designing with the environment in mind, Lexmark engineers products and packaging to reduce impacts in production and chooses materials with the widest range of opportunities for recovery and reuse.
Close the Loop is a resource recovery company, founded in late 2000 in Australia. The primary purpose of the company is to give OEM manufacturers of printing equipment a way to collect consumables and recycle them in a responsible fashion. Close the Loop uses patented processes to recover the plastic, printer ink, and toner in inkjet and toner cartridges to bring the materials back into the manufacturing process or use them as raw materials for new products.