Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
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.