Recyced HP Ink Cartridges

February 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Let us give numbers to computer-related wastes we dump to our planet. How many computers do you think is manufactured everyday? How many printers? How many computers do a person buy over their lifetime? How many printers? How long is the lifespan of a computer before we dump them in junkyards? How many HP ink cartridges are recycles today?

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Since I was in high school, I used 4 computers already. The first one I shared with my siblings. The second one was bought by my parents for my college dorm. The third one I bought using my first few months of salary. The last one that I have is a laptop.

I didn’t know what happened to the first computer. It was just wasn’t there anymore. The second computer is still in our house accumulating dust in the storage area. I gave my 3rd computer to my cousin who’s in college when I bought my laptop.

Now, the story of HP ink cartridges are a bit more complicated. I have been using my HP Deskjet printer since I was in college. It’s reliable although now there’s always the paper jam every other page I printed. Since I started using the printer, when the ink has run out, I discard the ink like I discard a banana peeling and then buy a new one.

It just made me realize how much the earth is burdened with HP in cartridges. Imagine how many people use HP printers and imagine how many of them run out of ink everyday. Those ink cartridges will go to our junkyards and will still be HP ink cartridges for another thousand and more years.

This is why I just realized why it’s a good idea go buy recycled ink cartridges. I was hesitant to buy because they say that the printer gets easily broken down. But a lot of people are already using them and so far their printers are still running smoothly.

So as not to burden the earth more, I will start using recycled HP ink cartridges. I hope there’s a more permanent solution to that but in the mean time, I think it will help a bit.

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Amazon Kindle 2.0 Used and Refurbished

February 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

amazon kindle 2.0 used and refurbished
You can now find used and refurbished Amazon Kindle for as low as $250 in the store’s web site. That’s more than a hundred dollars lower than the new ones. The site says that the condition of most of items are as good as new. One way of going green is buying used and refurbished electronic devises like this one.

I have been very interested with Amazon Kindle 2.0 for a long time now. It is a good idea and it is another way to encourage people to read. It is lightweight. They say that It is even lighter than the thinner paperbacks. It doesn’t cause glare. In fact, you can read from it even when you are directly under the sun.

If your eyes are tired from reading and you can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next in the book that you are reading, you can let the Amazon Kindle do the reading for you. Close your eyes, open your ear and the devise will read your book for you.

The collection of books that you can download is as big as your neighborhood bookstores. They carry almost all national book sellers and all the magazines and other publications. Now, you don’t need to go to the bookstore to get your copy of favorite magazine or the latest book from a trilogy. You can do all that right in the comfort of your bed with this devise.

I think that it is a good idea to buy Amazon Kindle 2.0 used and refurbished. It is not only a good product. It is also supporting green initiatives. The devices that are about to be thrown away to the landfills are refurbished and sold to people who needs cheap electronic reading devises. And the best thing is that no trees are cut from using e-books. Everybody wins when you buy this product including our planet earth.

To purchase your Amazon Kindle 2.0 just visit Amazon.com here

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Philippine Malls Go Green

February 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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    Filipinos are starting to go green, thanks to the effort of the biggest mall chains in the Philippines– SM Malls and Ayala Malls. They created environmental programs that aim to raise awareness about the environment and raise some money from recycling.
    SM Malls were the first to come up with the idea. The idea is to use the parking lot as place where people can bring all of the clutter and unused things in their house and sell that to private recyclers that are participating in the program. Almost all SM stores in the whole country participate in the Trash to Cash Recycling Market which is help once every few weeks or so.
    The Ayala Malls came up with the Recyclables Fair. They followed the same idea as SM Malls. They are attracting more and more people every time they hold the fair.
    The success of these programs tell us that Filipinos are already on the path to going green. It is also a way to rid their house of the clutter and unused items. They will also earn some money while tidying their things at home.
    This is also beneficial to the malls. Once the people traded their recyclables for cash, there is nowhere else to go than straight to the department store. The malls may not directly earn from the program but ultimately the money that the people will earn from selling their recyclables will end up in the mall’s cashiers.
    The best thing about it is that it is benefiting everyone including the earth. Filipinos are realizing that they can help in saving the environment– that the environmental problems that we are facing are not the problems of the government alone. I hope that more and more people will participate in the programs.
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Recycling Glass

February 4, 2009 By 1 Comment

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    Recycling glass is another way that we can go green in our homes. Over month, we may fill up a box of waste bottles that we used– jars, wine bottles, glass soda bottles and other containers that are made of glass. We can help reduce the amount of waste glass that is coming to our landfills by separating them and putting them in glass banks.
    We just have to separate the glass by color. The most common colors of glass are colorless, green and brown. The colorless glass are the our jars and soda bottles. Green glass bottles are the wine bottles. Brown glass bottles are the beer bottles.
    They can be broken down and turn into recycled glass. Glass can be recycled over and over again and less energy is needed to recycle glass than to make glass. It will also conserve our natural resources.
    Recycling glass can also mean using our waste glass for other purposes. We can re-use jars to store sugar or coffee. We can also re-use wine bottles as decors for our living rooms.
    Big companies who manufacture beer and wines are also being urged to re-fill used bottles. This is what many companies in the Philippines do. People collect waste bottles in the community, they clean the bottles and they sell it to the companies who own the bottles so that the company can use the bottles again.
    But majority of companies who use bottles for containers of their products still manufacture or buy new glass. We can reduce our national usage of our fuel if we encourage these companies to follow the other companies who refill their bottles.
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