Cartridge World Boss Testifies in Cyprus

Cartridge World Boss Testifies in Cyprus

The owner-director of Cartridge World in Cyprus has been interviewed by the local chamber of commerce and industry giving him the opportunity to testify to the benefits of recycling.

Duncan Glover (pictured), who has run his enterprise in Cyprus for more than 20 years, answered questions about his business at the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Limassol is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus. It’s known for the centuries-old Limassol Castle, home to the Cyprus Medieval Museum and its collection of pottery and tombstones.

Recycling

Question: Going green is a fundamental objective of the European Union and of most contemporary societies in general. How important is that for Cartridge World and what measures are you taking in that direction?

Duncan Glover’s response: Cartridge World the franchise was founded 25 years ago on the principle of re-use. That continues to this day as we encourage the return of every single-use plastic ink and toner cartridge that we put into the market. Our customers return them to us and we as licensed waste handlers can then export them within the EU to be sorted and reused or recycled. We are proud of our zero-waste actions. We have saved about ¾ of a million cartridges from landfills in Cyprus since our start in 2002. Our own brand replacement ink and toner cartridges are often filled to a higher yield to last longer and cost a lot less than the major brands, all our products are ISO certified and come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Glover says he offers a free ebook from the Cartridge World website. It gives 5 examples of how businesses can print leaner and greener. We are proud also to never have given a plastic bag away – choosing to always offer paper bags to our customers.

Because recycling and reuse are central to our business practices we promote also the REPAIR of Printers, PCs and laptops and our technicians in our 6 stores across the island are firstly available to talk through the problem and get a prompt fix, this is far more personal than dropping off the device in a big store with no idea of the time it will take to return it. We offer free diagnosis to encourage a repair culture and undertake work on a no fix no-fee basis.

Finally, we offer to take back end-of-life printers, laptops and PCs from our customers which we then recycle through WEEE Cyprus, the Collective System for Waste Management of Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Internships

Question: Tell us a few things about your internship programme. How’s that progressing and what are the main objectives?

Duncan Glover’s response: We have operated a revolving door internship program for several years. Our candidates stay six months in Cyprus and are given a wide-ranging introduction to business. We currently offer six different internships; that specialize in different areas including marketing, graphic design, 3D printing, eLearning and broader topics such as; “An introduction to business” and “Being a technician in a retail store”.

I got inspiration from when my own daughter applied for internships as part of her university degree course and it led me to offer the same package, so our internships are paid a small sum monthly that contributes to their expenses.

We have three interns currently, Olayinka is Nigerian and applied from the European University Cyprus where he is studying for his master’s and he commutes from Nicosia to our head office in Limassol to work on our website administration.

The other two who recently joined us; Maziar is Iranian and studies in Paris, Nastassia is from Belarus and studies in Italy. They are both involved with our eLearning software and Learning-Management-System, creating internal communication training modules for our team to keep our staff updated on new product launches and procedures. They both applied through the Erasmus program. ErasmusIntern.org provides an integrated marketplace that aims at bringing together internship providers and students seeking an internship opportunity abroad, we simply post our vacancies on the platform and candidates apply and go through our selection process. I always make the point to candidates that our objective is to achieve a win-win for both our company and themselves.

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