PURPOSE: To provide an EP cartridge capable of effectively preventing the leakage of toner even if a shield plate has the occurrence of waving.

CONSTITUTION: A toner recovering means 3 recovering untransferred toner T on a latent image carrier 1 is constituted to provide a cleaning blade 3A scraping the untransferred toner T from the latent image carrier 1, the shield plate 3B receiving the transferred toner T scraped by the cleaning blade 3A and a waste toner supplying roller 4A supplying the untransferred toner T received by the shield plate 3B to a waste toner box 4. Then, the surface part of the side abutted on the latent image carrier 1 of the shield plate 3B is arranged in a position where the surface part enters into the lower part of the carrier 1.