Archive for the ‘Remanufactured Cartridges’
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.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Remanufactured Ink and Toner Cartridge Company Announces First Web Video in a Video Series About Electronic Waste and Environmentalism for Green Businesses
Brad Roderick, executive vice president of InkCycle, whose history as an environmentalist dates back to his childhood farming roots, is featured in the first video, speaking about his company (InkCycle) and family’s environmental goals. “The premise was that if you take really good care of the earth, it’s going to take really good care of you and future generations. That’s what instilled in me this concept of stewardship, or what we now call environmentalism.”
Click here to watch
Monday, November 30, 2009
Trash Turned to Treasure with Recycled and Reused Materials
By Brad Roderick, executive vice president
Here’s something I found interesting and wanted to share with our readers. There’s a man in Texas who takes recycling and reusing to another level. He takes supplies and other items that would end up in a landfill and uses them to build very creative and inexpensive homes for people who wouldn’t be able to afford one otherwise. Check it out for yourself!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Grenk and LaserCycle answer KCP&L’s challenge to ‘green’ their printing operations to reduce the major energy supplier’s carbon footprint
Grenk and LaserCycle answer KCP&L’s sustainability challenge to ‘green’ their printers and print supplies
Using Grenk products to green their operations and increase efficiency, Kansas City Power & Light lauded the financial and environmental benefits of using Grenk and LaserCycle products.
“LaserCycle [and Grenk] helped KCP&L’s printers go ‘green,’ said Lora Cheatum, VP Procurement, who presented the green printer challenge. “Their remanufactured printer cartridges actually cost less than what we had been paying, and their zero-landfill recycling program supports the Company’s commitment to be more energy efficient and to improve the total living environment of the customers and communities we serve.”
Working through the Grenk affiliated LaserCycle, the 127 year-old energy supplier continues to implement environmental programs to lessen their impact on the environment, while saving money and keeping rates low for their customers. Visit their “Preserving the Environment” page of their website to learn more about their efforts.
The major Midwest energy supplier, servicing more than 800,000 customers in 47 counties, believes that dedication and leadership in fuel procurement, plant technology, and efficient power production and distribution is key in sustainable energy management.
Grenk would like to return the favor of investing in our green products by thanking the KCP&L for everything they do and continue to do to lessen their carbon footprint.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
E-Stewards video uncovers the infamous face of e-waste
from guest blogger michael timberlake
Check out this video from the Basel Action Network (BAN) that I found on the front of the Surplus Exchange’s website, a KC non-profit electronic donation and recycling organization and an BAN E-Steward Founder. It is far and away the best and most comprehensive video I have seen about e-waste. Covering issues such as corrupt ‘e-waste recyclers’ who make profits from donated electronics, pollution and contamination in developing nations due to primitive metal extraction practices, confidential data security risks in improperly recycled electronics, and poor legislation and enforcement by the U.S. and Canada in curbing this problem.
About BAN and the Surplus Exchange, a local Kansas City non-profit organization:
The Basel Action Network (BAN) is the only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade and its devastating impacts. Their E-Waste Stewardship Project is to designate and certify a group of recyclers and refurbishers that have proven a commitment to reaching the highest standards for responsible reuse and recycle of electronics, and to ensure every pound of e-waste is properly recycled and refurbished. Too often, corrupt e-waste recycling centers deceive responsible like you by claiming to operate environmentally-friendly while making profits through illegally shipping your e-waste to other countries or recycle their electronics below standards. The certification is to designate which non-profits and businesses adhere to this standard.
The Surplus Exchange is a non-profit organization that has been operating in Kansas City since 1984, and is an E-Steward Founder. Operating out of the West Bottoms, they take in donated surplus business goods and redistribute them charitably to the non-profit community, students in need, new businesses and are also sold to the general public to help divert the cost of their recycling programs and other efforts. Between 2005-2006 they diverted nearly 1500 tons of just electronics from landfills. However, much of the electronics dropped off or donated cannot be reused and are sent to a reclaiming facility with Surplus Exchange incurring the cost. You can help their efforts by donating or purchasing reusable electronics and business supplies, donating to their cause and efforts, or becoming an E-Champion by helping Surplus Exchange spread through forwarding information via your email. All donations are tax-deductible, go to SurplusExchange.com to learn more.