TIL ordnance and ordinance are two distinct words with distinct meanings
Which in practice will simply drive up the price: like refundable deposits
Cool, now ban the countdown chips that brick ink and printers that are still perfectly serviceable.
Seems like the headline and article itself are missing the main point
printer cartridges that can’t be refilled or that don’t have a take-back program offered by the vendor.
It may be barely mentioned but I read this are requiring a program to take back cartridges
Are there requirements for these programs? Or can they make it as onerous as possible to disincentivize usage of said program? (More rhetorical than anything)
I remember years ago seeing a list of the “most expensive liquids in the world”, and black printer ink was near the top of the list.
Other things on the list were scorpion venom, cobra venom, crab blood, insulin, things of that nature.
Kodak is to blame for that. Printers used to be expensive and ink cheap but then Kodak flipped the business model and made a ton of sales. Other printer companies were losing out, so they followed. I guess also blame falls on the consumers of that time for choosing that model as well
Looking into the history of Kodak is crazy. They used a 13 month calendar and secretly kept a nuclear reactor in the basement for years.
People forget that Kodak was a chemical company, not just photography.
Hey this was actually some good news in regards to US laws for once.
Here in the state of California, we still have the qualified in regulatory positions. Hell, I think we already reintegrated with the WHO.
I’m glad to read that, keep that up! 🤗
I love the idea but I don’t see how it will be enforceable. Companies routinely ignore California laws if they only exist in California.
This is just for city of Los Angeles, which is a small portion of Los Angeles county, let alone the entire state of California.
Repeat after me: plastic does not recycle. It inevitably degrades in the process.
Regarding printers… ink tanks is the only sensible answer.
We also need some sort of way to prevent heads from drying out so quickly.
Printer companies know heads dry out, and they ship tanks with caps / tape for prevent dry out on retail store shelves. But once the tanks are installed, printers just leave the heads exposed to the air. Like a pen without a cap, the tanks dry out.
I print like 5 times a year. So 90% of the time, when I’m replacing a tank, it’s because the damn head dried out.
Laser printers don’t have this problem. Their medium is already a dry powder!
Laser is the answer. Inkjet dries and clogs the jets if not used often like back when it was invented. Hardly anyone prints like that anymore.
Only problem with laser is the desk size for color laser. If you don’t print very often, and you want color, a laser can take up space.
Community ink tanks, with pipelines to transmit the ink from where it is mined to substations, and on and on.
I want a clam chowder pipe straight into the kitchen.
Water pipelines to the home. Gas pipelines to the home. Ink pipelines to the home. It just makes sense.
The children yearn for the ink mines?
Can’t print your homework? Back to the mine with you!
Refillable needs to be default
I’m in favor of ordnance targeting printers in general.
Wow. Just in time.
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I believe the cost is more to do with the electronic components. Ink cartridges are kind of like the OG disposable electronics and now we have disposable vapes.
Probably, but we also need to take every chance to reduce unnecessary plastic in the environment
