The following printer brands fund free recycling for eligible genuine cartridges used by their customers. Their support covers the national recovery system behind the program, from collection and logistics through to processing, reporting, and responsible material recovery..
HP and Samsung cartridge returns are managed through HP Planet Partners. If your organisation mainly uses HP or Samsung products, please register through HP.
Free recycling is funded by participating OEM partners and applies only to eligible genuine cartridges from those supported brands.
If your organisation regularly returns compatible, clone, remanufactured, or other unsupported cartridges, we may ask you to move to our Pay As You Go option. This keeps the program fair, transparent, and financially sustainable while allowing these products to continue being collected and recycled responsibly.
These contributions help cover the real cost of collection boxes and bags, transport, sorting, recycling, reporting, and responsible recovery for products not funded by manufacturer stewardship programs. Not sure whether your cartridges are supported? Contact our team and we will help you choose the right pathway.
Create your account, order your starter kit, and manage collections through the Close the Loop portal. Setup is free for eligible supported OEM products, with returns managed through our national couriers eLoop and Australia Post network.
Everything you need to start recycling printer consumables, delivered to your door. Free returns available across Australia.
WHEN YOU REGISTERSelect the primary brand used within your organisation. Once your account is approved, you can order your free starter kit through the Close the Loop portal.
Close the Loop operates the recycling and recovery system. Planet Ark helps bring the program to the public.
Since 2003, Close the Loop and Planet Ark have worked together through Cartridges 4 Planet Ark, one of Australia’s longest-running voluntary product stewardship programs.
Close the Loop manages the collection, logistics, processing, recovery, and reporting. Planet Ark supports public education and awareness, helping Australians understand how and where to recycle their used cartridges.
The Cartridges 4 Planet Ark public program is currently supported by HP, Canon, Epson and Brother. Their contribution helps fund Planet Ark’s education and awareness work, while supporting convenient cartridge recovery through public drop-off and office collection pathways. Together, the program gives home users, small offices and community groups access to convenient cartridge drop-off locations across Australia. Eligible cartridges from supported print partners can be returned at participating public drop-off points at no cost.
Some collection boxes may be stored behind the counter due to space constraints. If you cannot see the box, please ask store staff.
Return eligible cartridges through the Cartridges 4 Planet Ark public drop-off network at participating retailers and community locations across Australia.
Find a cartridge drop-off point ↓Want to help your community recycle more cartridges? Register your site to host a Cartridges 4 Planet Ark public collection box.
When registering, select “Cartridges 4 Planet Ark: Public Drop Off”.
Become a public drop-off location →For 23 years, Cartridges 4 Planet Ark has helped Australians recycle printer cartridges through one of the country's longest-running voluntary product stewardship programs.
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If your workplace regularly uses any of the supported printer brands in New Zealand, you’re eligible for a free collection box, and free collections nation wide. Please select your primary printer brand when registering.
HP cartridge returns are managed through HP Planet Partners. If your workplace mainly uses HP products, register through HP rather than the Close the Loop workplace registration page.
Close the Loop works with beauty and personal care brands to recover hard-to-recycle packaging from stores, counters, and customer return programs.
These partners help fund the collection, sorting, recycling, and responsible recovery systems behind their programs, making it easier for customers to return empty packaging with confidence.
A long-standing Close the Loop partner and one of the first beauty groups to support cosmetics packaging recovery with us more than 10 years ago.
Return eligible empty M·A·C containers through the Back-To-MAC program at participating counters and stores.
Learn about Back-To-MAC →
Drop off eligible empty beauty and skincare packaging at participating L’Occitane boutiques across Australia for responsible recovery.
Find a L'Occitane store →
Materials collected through participating cosmetics programs are managed through Close the Loop facilities operating to our independently audited Zero Waste to Landfill standard. Where materials cannot be directly recycled, they are responsibly recovered through approved pathways.
Close the Loop works with beauty and personal care brands to design practical take-back, sorting, recycling, and reporting programs for hard-to-recycle packaging.
