{"id":14415,"date":"2008-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20080111-03n"},"modified":"2008-01-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:00:00","slug":"canon-ink-packs-go-biodegradable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/canon-ink-packs-go-biodegradable\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon ink packs go biodegradable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/\" >Canon U.S.A.<\/a>, Inc., a leader in imaging and office solutions, has announced an initiative that will combine the Company&#8217;s latest environmentally-conscious printer products and solutions under one corporate brand name: Generation Green. As the company announced in its latest press release, some of the products use biodegradable packaging based on limestone. In addition, Canon offers a variety of solutions in its printer products that are integrated into this initiative such as paper saving technology, minimized product packaging, energy saving measures and the industry&#8217;s longest-running toner recycling program.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As part of its Generation Green campaign, Canon has also announced the availability of NatureStone<sup>TM<\/sup> product packaging in select ink packs. NatureStone uses biodegradable limestone packaging, which reduces the need for paper and other raw materials, resulting in a 45 percent reduction in natural energy, 65 percent reduction in petroleum-based plastics and 50 percent reduction in emissions that impact global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Generation Green is divided into three product classification categories: Eco-Conscious, Eco-Standards and Eco-Friendly. Among other environmental benefits, the Categora Eco-Conscious used  NatureStone packaging, while  current PIXMA printers classified as &#8220;Eco-Friendly&#8221; use Power supply casings made from recycled plastics.<\/p>\n<p><b>Further information:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/green\" >Generation Green homepage<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20080111-03\/Canon.pdf\" >Canon press release of 2007-01-08.<\/a> (PDF-document)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in imaging and office solutions, has announced an initiative that will combine the Company&#8217;s latest environmentally-conscious printer products and solutions<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}