LexJet Introduces Banner-Recycling Program

LexJet (Sarasota, FA) is partnering with Trex Co.®, a Winchester, VA-based manufacturer of wood-alternative decking, railing, fencing and trim products, to develop a banner-recyling program, which allows participants to bag used banners printed on LexJet 3R DuPont Tyvek® SUV (solvent/UV-curable compatible) and mail them to Trex to be recycled into decking, railing, and fencing products. The envelopes used to mail the banners are also recycled.

Largely based on its successful Inkjet Cartridge Recycling Program, which has saved wide-format inkjet cartridges from polluting landfills, LexJet’s new banner recycling program aims to significantly decrease the wide-format printing industry’s environmental impact and give each LexJet customer a competitive advantage in their market.

“LexJet’s banner recycling program makes it easy for wide-format print shops to offer their customers a completely sustainable solution that is simple, practical, and economical,” says Jeff Leto, LexJet’s product manager. “Nothing is wasted in the process because the LexJet Tyvek SUV banners are sent directly to Trex from the print shop and recycled. This is a true, life-cycle sustainability program, because the banner material itself is manufactured to exacting environmental standards, is extremely lightweight, and is being sent to a viable recycling outlet for direct use in consumer products.”

Customers who use LexJet 3R DuPont Tyvek SUV in a graphics project will package the used LexJet 3R DuPont Tyvek SUV banners in pre-addressed, recyclable UPS envelopes available from LexJet. Each envelope can handle roughly 10 standard-sized banners. There is a small fee for each envelope to cover shipping and handling costs.

The envelope is sent directly to Trex, which will recycle the contents and the envelope into its recycled lumber products.

LexJet’s banner-recycling program is part of the company’s Environmental Management Services, which were developed for print shops to decrease their environmental impact and increase the range of sustainable products they can offer as graphics providers.

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