BUSINESS
Eco-friendly laser printer cartridges

WHEN JIM Chow looks at the cartridge from a laser on Business Show in Vancouver,

printer, he sees an

environmental problem that’s bigger

than Toronto’s world-famous CN Tower.

“Each year countless numbers
of used toner cartridges from
computer laser printers are thrown
into landfills in Canada,"’ he said.
“If you stacked them up, they’d
go higher than the CN Tower.”

Chow’s home-based company
in North Vancouver, Mega Toner
Cartridges, recycles laser-printer
cartridges and toner cartridges
from fax machines and personal
copiers.

His company will pick up a car-
tridge from an office or home,
replace the cartridge drum or
other components if necessary,
re-fill the cartridge with graphi-
cs-grade toner, and deliver it
back. The pick-up and delivery is
free.

“lt saves money in the long
run, and reduces waste,”’ he said,
adding the landfill space is at a

Michael
Becker

HIGH TECH

premium,
Chow said the recent Window

Photo submitted

JIM CHOW’S company, Mega Toner Cartridges, is leading the
way in @ new environmental service — recycling used toner car-

tridges.

THE NORTH Shore YMCA is
offering a Red Cross babysitter
training course to teenagers who
are Il to 17 years of age. :

The course, which teaches par-
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emergencies, will include infor-
mation on first aid treatment and
fire safety, as well as tips on how
to keep children entertained.

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The session will run from 6:30
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. located at 1735 Inglewood Ave. in

West Vancouver.

A certificate will be issued upon
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For more information and to
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sponsored by the Ministry of
Economic Development, Small
Business and Trade, was a boon
to his company.

The purpose cf the show was to
give home-based businesses in the
computer and communications
industry an opportunity to meet
the Pacific Rira’s most innovative
designers, manufacturers and con-
sultants.

“TI received a fot of quality
leads and people asked a lot of
questions. | even got an inguiry
from someone with the govern-
ment of the Cayman Islands,
which has a landfill problem. And
i talked to someone from Hong
Kong who said recycling cartridges
has become more of a phenome-
non in Taiwan than in Hong
Kong."'

Chow said he estimates that less
than 10 per cent of companies in
B.C. are recycling their toner car-
tridges.

“It is primarily the larger com-
panies and universities that are
doing this because they realize
that large cost savings can be
made.

“More people are starting to
recycle their toner cartridges, but I
think it has a lot to do with saving
money. People may he concerned
about the environment, but saving
money is something you can real-
ize in the short-term. It’s some-
times hard to visualize the big en-

vironmental picture."*

Chow said his company has
started to diversify into laser-
printer cleaaing and maintenance.
{t has also started to supply a type

of toner that will allow people to
produce a reverse image on paper
that can be ironed on to a T-shirt
or to any metal, plastic or wood
surface.

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