Nottingham based Honest Inks Ltd joins XMA and Banner on the UK Parliament direct payment supplier list.
Nottingham based Honest Inks Ltd joins XMA and Banner on the UK Parliament direct payment supplier list. The direct payment list enables UK member of Parliament to order office and printing consumables from an approved supplier, and the supplier is paid directly from the Independent Parliament Standards Authority (IPSA). IPSA is independent of Parliament and the Government and takes decisions about the rules on business costs and expenses and on MPs’ pay and oversees a budget of £100-110m ($132-146m/ €112-124m).
Honest Inks Owner and CEO, Suzanne Reeveley said “We are pleased to have been added to the IPSA direct payment supplier list. It has taken some time to work through the accreditation requirements so that we can now supply all the UK members of parliament with their printer supplies. A key challenge was adapting our website to accept orders and to meet IPSA’s stringent data management requirements. This was a massive learning curve for us, but our website is our storefront, and we will now take all that we have learnt working with IPSA and incorporate these features into a new website we plan to launch early next year.”
Honest Inks was established in 2012 by Suzanne Reeveley who has been in the office supplies sector for most of her career selling OEM and remanufactured products. According to Reeveley “It has been a long journey building the business, but the circular economy concept is at the heart of what we do. Our long-term goal is to ensure no empty cartridge ends up in a landfill, if it can be reused, it will be reused, and if it can’t it will be turned into something new and useful. It takes time to do this, and I think we could have bought cheap and sold high, but that would have meant a lot of cartridges ending up in a landfill, which doesn’t fit our ethos. I think that our circular economy ethos helped us gain the accreditation.
Our supplies focus is on supplying OEM and UK remanufactured products and on collecting and reusing everything that we can. I know that this may upset a few industry people; However I want to be honest & say that sometimes people do need to stick to OEM’s products and that really remanufactured are never going to be as good a new OEM. We can say that in some cases the print quality can be as good as the OEM originals but we all know that it is more than just that, like the error messages being flagged up by HP when a non-original cartridge is put in the printer and the chip issues we need to deal with. We want to work with and not fight against the OEM’s, but we can only do that with the co-operation of the likes of HP canon & Epson.
My long-term goal is to ensure no empty cartridge ends up in a landfill, if it can be reused, it will be reused, and if it can’t it will be turned into something new and useful. To that end, we are working with the local schools where I grew up as a child and attended school. Our recycling scheme is aimed to raise money for the local Care Group and annual festival held at the school, while at the same time educating children about the choices they make for the future world they will be living in. Our newest charity we are proud to be supporting is Faith In Families in West Bridgford they are an independent adoption agency that believes every child has the right to grow up as part of a loving family, they do great work in the East Midlands, this is one that is also really important to me personally as I was adopted and understand first-hand the implications of being separated from your birth parents and the effects this can have on a child as they grow up.
Our message is simple “Choose to put your empty cartridge in the bin chances are it may end up in a landfill site. However, if you choose to take your empty to an Honest-Inks recycling box at your local school or Co-op store you are not only raising money for a good cause it will ensure that it will get remanufactured or reused.”