Recycling Inkjet CartridgesWritten by Barry Shultz
Here are a few facts about inkjet cartridges:* Over 375,000,000 Empty Inkjet Cartridges Dumped Each Year. * Statistics reveal that only 5% of all empty inkjet cartridges are currently being recycled. * E-mail has increased amount of paper used in offices by almost 40%. * Plastics used in inkjet cartridges can take over 10 centuries (1000 years!) to decompose * 90ml of oil is used to produce each inkjet cartridge. * In last six months alone, inkjet cartridge recycling has saved more than 50 million liters of oil. This is more oil than what was tragically spilled by Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. * Empty inkjet cartridges are THE most valuable post-consumer item. (http://www.empty-inkjet-cartridges.com) There are lots of companies on internet that will buy your empty inkjet cartridges. This is an excellent opportunity for raising fund money for any organization from Boy Scouts to baseball teams or to just put a few bucks back in your pocket. This is not chump change either. Some companies are paying $6.50 and more for one cartridge. Collect a bunch of these and you can make some serious money. Laser cartridges can fetch up to $25 each Most of companies that will buy your empty cartridges will also pay for any postage charges that you incur. Inkjet brokers just can't get enough cartridges fast enough to supply many recyclers that are starting up. They have to rely on people like you and me to keep them supplied.
| | Having Fun With The Printer Support TechsWritten by Barry Shultz
Many years ago when I was a copier technician my boss would always tell us to push our companies supplies, paper, toner etc.. Of course they wanted to sell more supplies and make more money but their techniques were very questionable. Just like printers you could go out and purchase generic supplies and some worked better than others naturally. Well supplies that we sold were also mostly generic, however, they were branded with our companies name and logos. Here's where sneakiness comes in. When a customer complained about a repair cost estimate we were told to blame it on their inferior generic supplies and to further that repair would have been much cheaper if they were using our over-priced supplies. I explained this to many customers on many occasions while desperately trying to suppress my rage at being forced to hand this BS to unknowing customers while I knew full well that what I was telling them was absolutely untrue. I knew at time that generic supplies my customers were using had nothing to do with expensive repair costs but you know what? They all bought idea, almost every customer that I explained this to started buying all their supplies from us. BECAUSE, I was an authority figure and a perceived expert in my field. This scenario lends itself fabulously to printer market. Threats from manufacturers, perceived experts, that your printer will suffer an untimely death if you use generic supplies or refill your cartridges. There's no truth to this at all. The printer manufacturers want to sell you their over-priced supplies and they will lie to you to get your business.
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