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CDs and Floppies: Kodak Diskcycling Program

Excerpted from INFORM's publication Waste at Work: Prevention Strategies for the Bottom Line

Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, New York, has established a computer diskette reuse program called the Kodak Diskcycling Program. Personnel who are unable for medical reasons to do their usual jobs reformat the diskettes, which would otherwise collect dust on people's desks or wind up in the trash. Employees can then purchase the diskettes through the company's computerized purchasing system at about 30 percent of the cost of new ones. The program recycled approximately 30,000 diskettes in 1996, saving Eastman Kodak about $20,000.*

*Communication from George C. Thomas, Kodak Park HSE Services, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY, to INFORM, Inc., November 1997.