Carbon Footprints

We all have one you know. Even though most give no thought to it all we leave behind an imprint each and every day of our lives by the things that we use at home and at work. There are two sources of carbon footprints, primary and secondary. Primary is the direct emission of CO2 such as cars, planes and our energy consumption. Secondary sources are indirect CO2 emissions from the whole life cycle of products we use in manufacturing. For more information check out carbonfootprint.com

New Business Opens in Paducah

The Cartridge Shop at 615 Monroe Street is helping to save the environment and the consumer to save money. Instead of tossing those empty ink cartridges in the trash which in turn is dumped in a landfill why not take them to this new business and let them recycle them. According to an article in the Paducah Business Journal May/June 2009 it takes up to 450 years for an ink cartridge to decompose in a landfill. Recycling the cartridge is a great way to do our part in living greener and to save ourselves some money. I have two empty cartridges that will be taken in very soon.