Buzz Raley, President and CEO, T3 Office Recycling Solutions
Buzz Raley explained how his business helps organisations get financial benefits and reduce their ecological effect by reusing surplus supplies.
Raley, President and CEO of T3 Office Recycling Solutions, was recently interviewed by Business Innovators Magazine about how his firm helps businesses and other organisations recycle surplus supplies, and at the same time “generate new sources of revenue”. T3, based in Rancho Cordova, California, collects and then recycles surplus new and used printer cartridges, inks, supplies and other consumable printer items.
When Business Innovators asked him about how manufacturers can have such high stocks of out-of-date or simply surplus items, Raley replied: “Technology changes so quickly these days and supplies are not always efficiently managed, especially when fleets of equipment are being refreshed. Printer fleet refreshes are a good example of a cause of excess materials.
“Typically what we have seen is, that as printer fleets are updated, the organisations were just sitting on the supplies for the old printers and were doing nothing. They would leave them in their storage closet or on pallets, depending on the size of the organisation, when they do these switch-outs. Then eventually they would just purge them and scrap them. Excess stock can also be generated due to liquidations and bankruptcies.”
Raley went on to say “now, when we reach out to government agencies and private sector businesses, we try to educate them on the value of our programme, letting them know that this can create a revenue stream that didn’t previously exist in their facilities. With our programme, not only are they receiving financial incentives, they are keeping usable materials out of landfills”.
He also mentioned his company’s ‘Full Circle Solution Programme’ which T3 uses to give customers advice on how to incorporate recycling programmes into the running of the office, for example maintaining inventory alongside change in the industry.
This process can be weekly, monthly or quarterly depending on the organisation. In this programme, employees are educated on what to watch for, and it ensures that everybody is on the same page within the company as far as recycling goes.