According to this article, Best Buy has joined the ranks of those on the recycling bandwagon, and that's a good thing for anyone holding onto computer and home electronics, such as televisions and monitors 32" or less, phones, cameras and computer peripherals including printers. The program's only acticve in a few places so far -- Baltimore, Minnesota and San Francisco -- but with luck it'll catch on and expand across the country. (The current list of participating stores is here.)

In the meantime, Best Buy still features recycling kiosks in front of every store, where people can drop off empty ink cartridges, cell phones, rechargeable batteries, PDAs, etc. One more good step in the right direction, considering how quickly technology advances, leaving so many computer peripherals facing early obsolescence.

Disclosure: The author, Amy Sage, is employed by MyInkPro.com.

While the inkjet vs. laser battle is hot in the home market, it's gearing up in the professional print shop market as well, according to this article over at AustralianIT.

Between the tremendously expensive offset presses, which operate by transferring an inked imaged from a plate onto paper, and the newer, cheaper Xerox laser printers, there hasn't been much room in the high volume market for inkjets, but that's soon to be changing as Kodak, HP and other printing manufacturers get ready to enter the field. The new inkjet presses displayed at the Drupa trade show this month will be somewhere in the midst of the field as far as initial cost goes, but at a cost per page of around a quarter of the Xerox laser printers, there's a lot of potential for the new inkjets to make a big impact in professional printing.

Disclosure: The author, Amy Sage, is employed by MyInkPro.com.