Posts Tagged ‘remanufactured products’
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The grenk Process: Let’s Start Fresh
Take a look at what makes the grenk process green:
Boxes are made from the highest available content of recycled material and are chain-of-custody certified.
No tape! A proprietary pad and re-usable clips eliminate the need for tape.
Storage bags are made from a new oxygen-degradable polyethylene film that begins degrading in months instead of hundreds of years like standard bags.
Storage clips are returned for reuse or recycling.
Air pillows not only protect our cartridges, they reduce the amount of plastic we use.
We test-print every cartridge before we ship it. Those test sheets are then shredded and reused to fill the storage bags.
All components that aren’t reusable are placed into a best-practices recycling stream. Nothing is thrown away.
Blades, gears and OPC Drums are reconditioned and reused whenever possible.
It’s one thing to recycle a print cartridge. InkCycle’s been doing that since 1992. But with grenk, we recycled the entire process, finding new ways to make our cartridges-and our entire business-more eco-friendly and sustainable.