Lisa Weber profiles Environmental Office Systems (EOS) in this month’s case study. Learn how the market has shifted for this empties broker and how e-waste is fuelling business.
- By Lisa Weber
- Sep 01, 2011
How do you make an environmentally friendly industry even greener? Just add soy.
- By Raegen Pietrucha
- Jul 01, 2011
It should be a given that the aftermarket’s customers understand the environmental benefits of remanufactured products. But even if they do understand it, does it matter? Are you getting the right message to your customers? Is your marketing green enough?
- By Sarah Henderson
- Apr 01, 2011
It's hard to deny the environmental benefits of remanufactured products -- good news for the aftermarket in a period where environmental benefits are so highly regarded.
- By Tricia Judge
- Apr 01, 2011
The second face-to-face meeting of EPEAT working group representatives took place in San Francisco on March 15 to 17. Working groups had used weekly conference calls and the November meeting in Washington D.C. to craft 15 pages of environmental guidelines for purchasing televisions and imaging equipment and their consumables.
- By Tricia Judge
- May 01, 2010
According to the Earth Day Network Web site, in 1970, Earth's Day's inaugural year, approximately 20 million Americans participated; now nearly 40 years later, Earth Day is the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a half billion people every year.
- By Katherine Fernelius
- Apr 01, 2010
- By Dan Mooney
- Apr 01, 2010
Parts Now! sorts and recycles materials down to the tiniest screw, but the savings are anything but small; in 2009 the award-winning company recycled 788,400 pounds of steel, copper and aluminum.
- By Wendy McRae
- Apr 01, 2010
You can’t ignore that a green movement is underway within American business. Our culture is becoming more environmentally aware where headlines of global warming and energy shortages have become salient issues. In reality, the concept of “green” has become its own industry.
- By Sarah Henderson
- Apr 01, 2010
From effective reuse practices, local cartridge collection and systems like EPEAT, remanufacturers walk the talk when it comes to environmentally sound business.
- By Tricia Judge
- Apr 01, 2010
The green movement is being embraced by the cartridge world in many ways. But dealing with the discarding of cartridges that have fully served their useful life has been one of the industry’s most vexing problems. Enter Innovative Applications Corporation, based in El Paso, Texas. IAC’s laser toner cartridge recycling business is booming, green and clean.
- By Dan Mooney
- Mar 01, 2010
Green print initiatives can not only reduce your carbon footprint, they can increase your revenues.
- By Matt McLeish
- Feb 01, 2010
Sustainability and green-forward thinking are top of mind issues these days. West Point Products launched its new AgriTone, a bio-based toner line, at World Expo 2009 and look to make a difference in the market and for the environment.
- By Wendy McRae
- Oct 01, 2009
The imaging industry aftermarket, by its very makeup, is an environmentally friendly entity. So, what's the next big breakthrough in the aftermarket's green world? Try toner.
- By Megan Taylor
- Nov 01, 2002