The online retailer participated in America Recycles Day on 15 November 2018, hosting electronics collection events in 4 cities across the country. As the company explained, almost 100 percent of e-waste is recyclable but the majority is either incinerated or sent to...
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Seattle recyclers charged with conspiracy
Washington recycling firm Total Reclaim Inc. has been charged by federal prosecutors with lying to customers about the destination of its e-waste.
CIT unveils new products
CIT has announced the release of a wide range of new products. Among the new releases is a package of 4 components for use in the remanufacturing of a drum unit for Kyocera TaskAlfa 1800/1801/2200/2201 models. As part of this package, the company has released a...
Ultimaker unlocks new 3D printing applications
The desktop 3D printing company announced the availability of the first material print profiles in Ultimaker Cura 3.6. The company revealed the news at the Formnext conference in Frankfurt, Germany, where it hosted a press conference together with BASF,...
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Canon appeals to Amazon again
The OEM has announced the filing of further Report Infringement Forms with Amazon Italy. One of the forms was filed based on the alleged use of claim 1 and 25 of the Italian portion of Canon's European Patent EP 2 087 407 regarding the cartridge models "CE505A" and...
Green light for American self-repair?
The US Copyright Office has ruled that citizens may break anti-piracy protections in order to fix various items themselves – including ink cartridges.
Printerland exceeds £50 million revenue
The printer and consumables reseller is on course to hit a turnover record for the 2019 financial year. According to CRN, “the Manchester-based VAR has reported a revenue of £44 million ($56.4 million/€49.5 million) for its 2018 fiscal year, which was an increase of...
Ricoh scores a double
The OEM announced last week that it has made two new acquisitions, LAC Corporation and MakeLeaps, Inc. LAC Corporation, explains Ricoh, is a company with unique inkjet technology that supports printing on three-dimensional surfaces e.g. on the sides of cars, trucks,...
Intertec joins forces with Lexmark
Qatari printer and IT products distributor, Intertec Group, has announced the formation of a new partnership with Lexmark International. News of their new collaboration was broken at a recent customer event held in Doha, which was organised “for the benefit of channel...
HP expands on CSR commitments
Following the recent announcement that it had signed up to the NextWave Plastics initiative, HP has been shedding further light on its sustainability efforts, as Plastics Today reports. The OEM’s Chief Supply Chain Officer, Stuart Pann, explained that HP had joined...