Archive for the ‘Remanufactured Cartridges’
Friday, October 2, 2009
Recycling program distorts climate change goals in diverting e-waste for commercial benefits
Not all recycling programs can be trusted. This article from the Sacramento Bee unveils how a California recycling program touted to aid climate change goals actually became a way for Hewlett-Packard to benefit their own business at the risk of increasing pollution and costs to the state. Click the screenshot to read the entirety of this important and interesting article!
Friday, August 14, 2009
InkCycle featured on GreenandSave.com
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
InkCycle, grenk show how to produce zero-waste ink and toner; cut down e-waste
A lot of hard work goes into staying green and reducing a carbon footprint. Just ask the dedicated green individuals over at InkCycle.
When InkCycle set out to create the grenk line of recycled ink and toner cartridges, it took a lot of dedicated individuals to design a truly unique and green product. Here’s InkCycles inside look at what it takes to recycle ink and toner cartridges.
Company Announces Ink Cartridge Recycling Index – The most popular videos are here
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Ink Cartridge Recycling Index to Divert More Than 700 Million Ink Cartridges From Landfills
InkCycle’s new cartridge measurement tool diverted 394 tons of toner and ink cartridges from entering landfills last year (2008).
Ink cartridges are considered e-waste; they are harmful to the environment and can take eons to decompose, according to IdealBite.com (http://www.idealbite.com/tiplibrary/archives/getting-inked). Companies and consumers should recycle their old ones, and when ink cartridges are purchased, go with refilled ones, which work just like conventional cartridges.
According to Brad Roderick, executive vice president of InkCycle, “It’s time consumers and businesses know how much their green initiatives are really saving the planet.”
Read the full story at :http://newsblaze.com/story/2009062210245300002.mwir/topstory.html
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
A Small Business Helps Garden State Go Green by Partnering with InkCycle
Robert A. Barbiere is executive vice president at National Cartridge Supply, a national provider of environmentally-friendly ink and toner cartridges
Based in Morristown, NCS helps companies become more sustainable and environmentally conscious by using fully recycled and remanufactured ink and toner products. To meet this goal, it has partnered with InkCycle to provide grenk, a new line of remanufactured ink and toner cartridges designed to leave the smallest environmental footprint possible.
NCS is an environmentally-friendly specialty supplies company that focuses on the ink and toner market. NCS works with purchasing directors and managers to evaluate an organization’s printing and copying expenses and recommend products with optimal quality and cost.
Click here for the full article.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Would you Consider Buying Remanufactured Ink and Toner Cartridges?
Should You Use Remanufactured Ink Cartridges?
Here is a great article that explains the benefits of using remanufactured ink cartridges.
What Are Remanufactured Ink Cartridges?
These cartridges, sometimes called “recycled ink cartridges”, are used cartridges that have gone through a multi-step process that culminates with their being recharged with fresh printers ink.
When you purchase a remanufactured ink cartridge from a reputable dealer, initially it will be cleaned thoroughly. Then it’s filled with high quality printer ink. After being filled its internal pressure is checked. Only then is it inspected for potential leaks.
Once these cartridges have passed these regimens they are tested to ensure that they function optimally.
If the cartridge passes all its tests and meets all the necessary standards it is considered to be a remanufactured ink cartridge and is offered for sale.
A properly remanufactured cartridge that has been through these rigorous tests will not adversely affect your ink jet printer. It will work as well, and some say even better, than an original equipment manufacturer cartridge. That’s because the quality of printers ink used to refill it can even be of a higher standard.
What Are the Benefits of Using Remanufactured Ink Cartridges?
There are a couple of major benefits for using a remanufactured cartridges instead of an OEM cartridge.
1. Your most obvious benefit is that it will save you a lot of money. Recycled cartridges cost considerably less than original equipment manufacturer cartridges. You can actually save 50% or more when you purchase these cartridges.
If you or your company does a lot of printing this can amount to very significant savings over the course of time. Your print quality should not suffer because most remanufacturers guarantee superior quality.
2. The next benefit may seem altruistic, but it is undeniable that using remanufactured cartridges is ecologically sound. Unfortunately, every year countless millions of ink cartridges are dumped into landfills. Residual ink can leak out of these cartridge and cause pollution.
Also, since these cartridges are primarily made of plastic and metal, they will not degrade. They will take up space in landfills for perhaps generations to come. And, depending on where you live, available space for landfills has either been overtaxed and / or is unavailable.
Buying remanufactured ink cartridges is a win-win situation for you, your company, and the environment.
So, now you know the benefits? Would you consider buying remanufactured ink cartridges?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
We’re on YouTube too! green + ink = GRENK… get it?
This is a short version of a video created for grenk.
Friday, May 22, 2009
InkCycle sees profit potential in environmentally friendly product
By James Dornbrook of the Kansas City Business Journal
InkCycle founder and President Rick Krska hopes to create some serious green with the company’s latest product.
The product, called “grenk” (pronounced like a mashing together of green and ink), is a line of remanufactured printer toner and ink cartridges designed to be 100 percent environmentally friendly, including the packaging. The product even includes regular reports that tell customers exactly how much material their purchases have removed from the waste stream.
“The good news for us has always been that we’ve kept ink cartridges from going into the landfill after one use, so there has always been a 50 percent savings,” Krska said. “Now, we’re saying we want to clean up the rest of that waste stream so there is very little coming out the back end. We’re finding there are many companies out there that care about this.”
Krska said he was sitting in a café in California when the idea hit him that he could make a difference with a truly “green” product.
Toner cartridges are mainly plastic, he said, but also contain aluminum and steel parts. Recyclers exist for each part but not for the cartridge as a whole. So his idea was for InkCycle to separate the cartridge components.
“We put these together, so we can take them apart faster than anyone,” Krska said.
Click here for the full article.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
InkCycle was Green Before Green was Cool.
Reported by: Mark Clegg for NBC Action News
When it comes to living green, there’s a lot more to it than just recycling. A Metro company built their business on that 16 years ago, but they’re still looking for ways to improve the environment today.
InkCycle takes used toner and inkjet cartridges and rebuilds them.
“We take them and put them through a real extensive process,” explains InkCycle’s President and Chief Executive Servant Rick Krska. “We then clean them and refill them, repackage them, and deliver them back through resellers to customers.”
The company has come a long way since 1992 when Krska started with one clear mission — to keep electronic clutter out of our landfills.
“We were kind of green before green was cool,” Krska laughs.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
InkCycle in Industry Week: Putting Waste to Work
Putting Waste to Work
Forget the landfill. Manufacturers are getting better at finding ways to reuse their waste.
By Jill Jusko
Print Cartridges Get New Life
For InkCycle, a remanufacturer of toner and print cartridges, one could argue that it is inherently green in that it reuses spent cartridges that might otherwise end up in a landfill. That’s certainly true, at least in part, says Brad Roderick, executive vice president. “At the end of the day, we are rebuilding on somebody else’s trash.” He points out, however, that even remanufactured products at some point reach the end of their usable life.