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About Us

Close the Loop® was founded in late 2000 by our current CEO, Steve Morriss, with the specific goals of recycling toner and inkjet cartridges with zero waste to landfill and returning the raw materials back to the original manufacturer for reuse in new printers and cartridges. The name Close the Loop® was chosen because the original idea was, and still is, to create a service that closes the loop on print consumables.

Innovation
Close the Loop® has achieved zero waste to landfill through technological innovation. A team of Australian engineering companies, and Australian recycling experts like Dr John Scheirs was formed with the goal of achieving zero waste to landfill from this complex waste cartridge stream and ultimately returning the raw material output streams back to the manufacturer for reuse in new printers and cartridges, effectively closing the loop.

Product takeback programs
We have co-created ‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark’, Australia’s leading multi vendor, extended producer responsibility (EPR), electronics take-back program, the only program in the world today that has the technical capability to recycle all imaging consumables with zero waste to landfill. Close the Loop® supplies the recycling backend, and also the customer service and logistics essential to the successful operation of any takeback program.

As global legislation for extended producer responsibility of electronics waste matures, the demand for takeback and recycling of imaging consumables is increasing globally. Close the Loop® provides these services to original equipment manufacturers only, co-ordinating takeback from various countries in the Asia Pacific region for state of the art recycling and resource recovery at our facility in Melbourne, Australia.

Recycling manufacturing scrap
Original Equipment Manufacturers of inkjet and toner cartridges are now looking to enhance their environmental credentials by recycling manufacturing scrap with zero waste to landfill and recovering raw materials for reuse. We now provide this service to several of the worlds biggest cartridge manufacturers and have developed the business to handle increased capacity.