Archive for the ‘Remanufactured Cartridges’
Friday, March 5, 2010
Postal Service: Stop! We’ll help you recycle that mail
Posted By: Brad Roderick
Here is an article about the postal service and their initiatives to recycle from USA Today.
Postal Service: Stop! We’ll help you recycle that mail
The U.S. Postal Service may seem so last century, burning fossil fuel to deliver paper mail, but it’s increasingly going green. Its latest endeavor: more lobby recycling bins.
It’s adding these bins to encourage customers to “read, respond, recycle” their P.O. box mail while still in the post office lobby, instead of throwing the paper away at home.
The number of post offices with recycling containers will increase 2,435, bringing the total to 8,064, an increase of 150% since the lobby recycling program began in 2005, the U.S. Postal Service announced last month. That’s still, however, a fraction of the 27,161 post offices it operated last year.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Sprint Challenges Wireless Industry to Embrace a Greener Tech Future
Posted By: Brad Roderick
I want to congratulate Sprint for taking the lead on sustainability initiatives and testifying before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. Below is a press release from MarketWatch, providing information on the issue.
Sprint Challenges Wireless Industry to Embrace a Greener Future
Hesse testifies before Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet
WASHINGTON, Feb 23, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Sprint Nextel [NYSE: S] CEO Dan Hesse testified today before Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and members of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet about sustainability initiatives undertaken by Sprint and the wireless technology industry to benefit the environment. Hesse focused his remarks on how Sprint’s environmental efforts and goals are challenging the technology industry to creat”greener” future.
Hesse announced two new initiatives as Sprint continues its leadership in developing aggressive, measurable sustainability goals. Sprint has implemented green product guidelines for all its manufacturers, and is introducing an innovative wireless recycling Buyback program. Below are excerpts from Hesse’s testimony:
Thursday, February 18, 2010
How Green is the 2010 Winter Olympic Games: Recycled medals made from electronic waste
Posted By: Brad Roderick
With the Winter Olympics in full effect in Vancouver, I want to highlight some of the initiatives being taken to make the games more green. Here is a video from GreenopolisTV, explaining how this years Olympic medals in Vancouver are made from electronic waste.
Olympic Medals made with your recycled TV?
From: GreenopolisTV | February 17, 2010 | 1,572 views
For the first time in Olympic history, the medals at the Olympic Games contain gold, silver and copper that has been recovered from electronic waste (e-waste). Each medal was made with a tiny bit of the more than 140,000 tons of e-waste that otherwise would have been sent to Canadian landfills. More than 1,000 medals to be awarded at the Vancouver games this year.
The recovery of medals from e-waste is important, because it reduces demand for scarce metals such as gold and copper. Check in your community for e-waste recycling centers and drop off points and go for GOLD.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Installing Solar Panels On Earth
Posted By Brad Roderick
I would like to share with you a stunning article from landartgenerator.org about how to power our planet by using solar energy solely. The small amount of solar panels required to install on the surface of earth will provide clean energy.
Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).
I wonder what surface area would be required and what type of infrastructural investment would be required to supply that amount of power by using only solar panels. To create fuel that can be used in vehicles and equipment I am assuming that some of the electricity generated would be used to create hydrogen. We should all start wondering about these things since we will have really no other choice* by the turn of the next century.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
TIME Magazine covers Options on Cutting Carbon
Posted By: Leslie Fischer
It looks like the world is going green and getting greener! Here is an interesting article I found discussing a plausible solution to cut carbon. Some industry leaders in developing sustainable energy solutions think the solution to this problem is right under our noses (and feet, for that matter), with an innovative process called carbon capture and storage, or CCS.
Cutting Carbon: Should We Capture and Store It?
By SIMON ROBINSON / ABU DHABI Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
In the push to cut the amount of carbon we release into the atmosphere, solutions usually focus on how to reduce our power use (drive less, insulate our houses better) or how to replace our carbon fuels (coal, oil) with renewable sources (solar, wind, biofuels).
But even in the most optimistic scenario, we will be using fossil fuels such as coal for years to come. China and India aren’t going to suddenly shut down all their new coal power plants, nor will Western industrial giants close their factories overnight. Solar and wind may be today’s sexy new energy sources, but coal is the fastest-growing fuel in the world, boasting twice the known gas reserves and three times the known oil reserves. “Coal is here to stay,” Milton Catelin, head of the World Coal Institute, told the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on Jan 19.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
InkCycle/ Grenk featured in the Kansas City Business Journal
Posted By: Brad Roderick
Recession leads to Rebirth of Recycled Ink Cartridges. Check out this article explaining how Grenk thrives in economic downturn from the Kansas City Business Journal:
InkCycle gets second crack at growth
Like its recycled products, InkCycle is undergoing a rebirth.
The printer cartridge remanufacturing business, started in Rick Krska’s garage in 1992, peaked at 790 employees in 2006. But the loss later that year of a national account to remanufacture Hewlett Packard cartridges for retailer Staples caused the Lenexa-based company’s employment to drop to about 210.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Green Up Your Office: Tips From Grenk’s Brad Roderick
Posted By: Brad Roderick
Over the last few years, there are better practices to be able to remanufacture, recycle, reduce and reuse materials than there ever have been before. I wanted to provide some tips and suggestions to green up your office. Some of the suggested office changes are energy saving lights, eco-friendly flooring, using recycled copier paper and replacing company vehicles with hybrids.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
How about a side of some recycled ink with those 350 million sheets of printed paper from Twitter; reuse, recycle, remanufacture
Posted By: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article from Mashable staff writer Jennifer Van Grove. The article proposes the question: what would happen if you tried to print twitter? Maybe we should use recycled ink before printing those 350 million sheets of paper on Twitter.
If You Printed Twitter It Would Cover 350 Million Sheets of Paper [Infographic]
What would happen if you tried to print Twitter? The folks at CreativeCloud have done the imagining for us and come up with an impressive and detailed graphic that answers the big what-if question.
Each of the seven mind-blowing graphical conclusions sum up the printed Twittermathematical figures in real-life ways and highlight just how much paper and money it would take to print out the entire microblogging site. Now just try to image what would happen if you tried to print Facebook.
Per the intriguing graphic embedded below, if you printed Twitter …
- … the seven billion tweets to date are composed of 104,860,000,000 words, as many as 133,000 copies of the the King James version of the Bible.
- … it would cover 350 million sheets of paper, which is 37 times the number of pages used in bills introduced in the United States Congress since 1955.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Consumer Electronics Show 2010: Trends of the New Year, innovation and sustainability is a large focus for technology companies this year
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Experiencing first hand all of the innovative and green focused products at the CES 2010, I want to share this article by Shayne Rana from Tech 2.0 about the emerging trends to look for as a consumer in 2010.
CES 2010: Trends of the New Year
CES 2010 at Las Vegas has ended and amongst the staggering array of consumer technology covering all bases, a few trends have been set. The event itself featured manufacturers of all kinds of technology focusing on innovation and keeping it green, but there were a few trends that made it rather obvious to us, the consumer, that we would be seeing plenty of them during the course of 2010.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Green Life: 12 gift ideas and a few more for stocking stuffers
With the holidays around the corner, many people are turning to green alternatives for gift options. I wanted to share this article from the Montreal Gazette that has provided some interesting eco friendly gift ideas.
MONTREAL – “On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, an eco-friendly gift that really sucked.”
You don’t want your love to be singing that little ditty this Christmas, do you? Let’s face it, some so-called “green gifts” are really more for the giver than the recipient. Sure, you want your friends and family to know that you care about the planet. And I am all for reusing gift bags, avoiding battery-operated toys, making your own gifts and fashioning original holiday cards from last year’s haul. But who really wants phosphate-free dish soap for Christmas? And please, no compact fluorescent bulbs in my stocking this year.