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Lexmark products are designed to meet or exceed the strict criteria of some of the world’s most prominent standards and certifications. These certifications may require testing, analysis, audit, third-party review, standard declaration or disclosure of business or product information. To learn more about Lexmark products and their certifications, see Sustainability Report Summary: Product certifications.
Lexmark evaluates all of the environmental phases of our products: design, manufacturing, distribution, use and end-of-life. To learn how Lexmark is tracking and reporting our efforts to reduce our product environmental footprint, see Sustainability Report Summary: Product life cycle. To view Lexmark product-line Life Cycle Assessment reports, see LCA Reports.
Lexmark designs and manufactures products that are RoHS & REACH compliant. For more information, see Lexmark's REACH Declaration and RoHS Declaration. For further inquiries, please contact sustainability@lexmark.com.
Lexmark consumables contain synthetic polymer microparticles (microplastics) as defined under REACH Regulation (EU) 2023/2055.
For more information please see Lexmark Safety Data Sheets that relay safety information for the toners used in Lexmark consumables.
Lexmark products do not contain endocrine disruptors. Learn more about EU REACH, RoHS, endocrine disruptors and other substance declarations for Lexmark products in the REACH Declaration. For further inquiries, please contact sustainability@lexmark.com.
Lexmark complies with laws and regulations for the reporting and/or restriction of hazardous substances. The controlling document for Lexmark products is the Lexmark Product Environmental Specification (1040000). For further inquiries, please contact sustainability@lexmark.com.
Lexmark evaluates the careful use of resources by means of material inventory within the supply chain and specifically for precious metals and rare earth used. Silver and Neodymium are used at small levels for specific performance and durability applications which are declared per the French Circular economy bill ( LOI n° 2020-105 Article 13.1 - Title 2). For more information on the declaration of precious metals and rare earth, see Rare Earth Declaration.
Lexmark is committed to responsible global sourcing of the minerals in our products. As a member of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), we perform due diligence to reasonably assure that conflict minerals (tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold) and extended minerals (cobalt and mica) in the products we manufacture do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups that are perpetrators of serious human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. See Conflict Minerals Report and Extended Minerals Report.
Lexmark has a target to reduce single-use-plastics in packaging by 50% by 2025. For more information on Lexmark product packaging, see Sustainability Report Summary: Packaging.
Lexmark is an industry leader in the use of reclaimed plastic with 37% of the plastic content, by weight, in Lexmark branded toner cartridges coming from post-consumer plastic from our Lexmark Cartridge Collection Programme. Our goal is to increase the use of reclaimed plastic through the PCR and product reuse processes to 50% by 2025.
Lexmark branded, in-house laser printer and multifunction product hardware models sold in 2020 contain an average of 39% PCR plastic by weight of plastic, with 100% of these models containing some PCR plastic content. Our goal is to increase the average post-consumer recycled content plastic in models to 50% by 2025. See Sustainability Report Summary: Materials for additional information on Lexmark's use of PCR plastic. To view our key performance indicators including our PCR goals, see Sustainability Report Summary: Key performance indicators.
Electronic and electrical materials and components found in Lexmark products per the Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive are available to responsibly recycle your printer and supplies, see Disassembly WEEE guides. To learn more, please contact sustainability@lexmark.com.
When you return your empty supplies through LCCP, you are helping to reduce the impact on the environment and promote sustainability. Each year, millions of pounds of materials are responsibly reused and recycled, and it starts with you. To learn how to return your cartridges for reuse and recycling, click Lexmark LCCP.
As part of our commitment to sustainability, Lexmark offers a responsible choice for disposal of end-of-life printers. Through LECP, you can return any end-of-life Lexmark branded product and Lexmark will recycle the equipment for free. To learn how to recycle your printer, click Lexmark LECP.
You may use your new printer's packaging material to return your old Lexmark printer. Otherwise, please consider locally recycling the packaging material if facilities exist in your area. If not, you may return the packaging material from your new Lexmark printer or other Lexmark hardware, including service parts, to Lexmark by whatever shipping method is most convenient to you. To learn how to recycle packaging, click Lexmark LECP.
The Triman logo is a mandatory, unified signage for end-of-life products created from the French Decree No.2014-15733 to harmonize the separate collection systems within France. This symbol provides a more readily understandable symbol for citizens and consumers in France to ensure recyclable products are separated at end of life.
