Lyreco Sustainable Development Report 2019

ECO FUTURE 2012 2018

ENVIRONMENT WASTE RECYCLING

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AS A SERVICE — Lyreco offers recycling services to customers in all relevant markets. More than 10 product categories are covered: Laser Cartridges, Ink Jet Cartridges, Batteries, Light Bulbs, Elec- trics & Electronics, Paper, Cardboard, Cups, Plastics bottles, Aluminium Cans & Coffee Capsules. In some subsidiaries, Lyreco also adds a ‘social magnitude’ category by involving solidarity organisations. For instance, since March 2017, we have worked with ‘Ateliers du Bocage’ (a subsidiary of te Emmaus Group), which handles printer cartridges collected by Lyreco. With the growing importance of the ‘circular economy’, this trend has a bright future. Last year, we collected more than 1,200,000 empty printer cartridges. Lyreco also developed tools such as the Logistics Calculator and the Environmental Balance to raise customer awareness and help them reduce their environmental impacts when buying office supplies.

Beyond providing recycle bins, Lyreco also offers services of recyclable items.

APPLYING CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRINCIPLES TO PRINTING Bruno Pluchart | Tech & Print International Category Manager, Lyrego Group — LYRECO has developed a high quality, environmentally friendly range of remanufactured cartridges that applies the circular economy principles to printing. HOW DO YOU SEE THE FUTURE OF PRINTING? Our customers strive for sustainable printing practices. Cartridges play a key role in this field. Combining sustainability with a quality product and integrated services is a winning combination. Lyreco develops environmentally friendly products in partnership with manufacturing suppliers who use the Circular Economy as a lever to tackle this challenge. Lyreco toner cartridges are recycled to produce new cartridges. They are collected, reshaped, cleaned, have parts replaced and are refilled with toner... so they can be used again. This means that fewer raw materials are used. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A RESPONSIBLE COMPANY? We cannot continue to have a product lifecycle that involves using things once.

Circular Economy is truly the future: it is about making sure that we can give Lyreco products a second or a third life. Beyond the products, it is also about how to deliver it and develop services around it, such as the collection of used cartridges. Lyreco sees this as a key element of its company vision: offering products and services with the most environmentally sound methods.

RECYCLING IN HONG KONG Lyreco Hong Kong recently joined Hong Kong government’s computer recycling programme to recycle 100% of IT equipment. The objective is 100% recycling of all IT material.

Lyreco Toner cartdridges launched in 2018 meet the highest standard with regards to the environment, quality and health.

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