page_title: Take-back system
section_title: Recycling
hierarchical_section_title: Take-back system / Take-Back System / Recycling
caption_attribution_description: English: The image depicts NH88C, which is a remanufactured ink cartridge that can be used to replace the ink cartridge of name brand ink cartridges.
context_page_description: A take-back system is one of the primary channels of waste collection, especially for e-waste, besides municipal sites. Take-back is the idea that manufacturers "take back" the products that are at the end of their lives. Take-back is aimed to reduce a business' environmental impacts on the earth and also increase efficiency and lower costs for their business models. "Take-back regulations have targeted a wide array of products including packaging, batteries, automobiles, and electronics" and economic value can be found from recycling or re-manufacturing such products. "The programs benefit municipalities by lowering their overall waste disposal costs and reducing the burden on landfill sites". Although for certain companies, the take-back system is mandatory under legislation, many do it voluntarily.
  Take-back can be split up into
  store retailer take-back and
  producer take-back.
  It can be further split into two types
  Recycling
  Re-manufacturing
context_section_description: One major option of the take-back system includes store retailers or producers taking back the products that have been distributed to their consumers in order to recycle the materials of these products. The take-back system encourages businesses to redesign their products into ones that are easily recyclable, reducing the burden that virgin materials have on the environment for the present and the future . This also gives companies an alternative supply of raw minerals .
caption: [Images 1] An example of a re-manufactured ink cartridge.
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