Comments on: HP's print cartridge packaging goes green

Company says smaller, lighter packaging will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 37 million pounds this year.

[pmc8]

Lower prices?

Now if only they could make their inkjet cartridge prices "friendlier" to the consumer...

More recycled content and less packaging materials mean lower cartridge prices, right? Didn't think so. Go Kodak.

[bob donut]

not saving the environment...

The real reason they reduced the sizeof the printer cartridge was so that you have to go buy them again. I have an old HP printer that uses 45 mL containers and won't ever replace it until it breaks because modern printeres only hold 23 mL per container but sell at 75% the old cartrdige cost. Do the math and you're losing money.

[DeusExMachina]

Why are you even using cartridges at all?

To really save money, just get a bulk feed system, and print from
tanks. There are lost of sources of these for most printer models.

[Truth Speaker]

Business exists to extract profit

So what if they shrink their product to make more profit?

Capitalism is founded on the socially reckless belief that value can rightly be extracted from society by any means deemed expedient without regard for the consequences. This approach allows us to manufacture, promote, and sell poorly designed, harmful, unhealthy, thoughtless products under the banner of "freedom", thereby causing massive long-term societal damage.

Though apologists call this valueless approach to resource exchange the best system possible, they are only repeating propaganda that advocates the accumulation of individual private wealth without concern for the implications of the methods used to obtain that wealth or its social results. For example, there is no consideration given to the widespread harm inflicted on society as a result of media, junk food, mechanistic behavioral demands, pollution, economic deceit, and other fundamental aspects of modern capitalism.

Capitalism is a jail from which we must escape.