Popcorn - a good packing material for shipping toner cartridges?

Cushioning and protecting your products during shipping with Styrofoam packing peanut pieces and packing popcorn is common. There are even biodegradable packing peanut and popcorn that are easier on the environment and actually dissolve in water.

But at least 1 customer has taken the environmentally friendliest approach to returning their cartridge - by using, well, popcorn. Not the packing popcorn that you are thinking of, but real popcorn.

123 Refills offers 100% guarantee on defective inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges returned for exchange within the return time limits. Padding the returned product is a good idea to avoid damage in transit. Any padding material can be used, old newspaper, packing peanuts or padding popcorn. Padding your return with real popcorn as shown below (or real peanuts - we have not seen this yet) is not necessary, and although extremely environmentally friendly, we are a little concerned that it may tempt our warehouse employees :)

123 Refills Franchise Expands to Kuwait

Kuwait City, Kuwait –(July 16, 2009) - 123 Refills, a well established ink and toner cartridge refill franchise concept, has announced its expansion into the country of Kuwait. The company has announced that it has awarded the first franchise rights to Saoud Nasser Al-Mutairi, of the Kuwait Industrial Solution Company (Kuwait City).

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab Emirate with an estimated population of 3 million. The company has plans to open the first store within the 3rd quarter of 2009.

Having just signed the master franchise rights to neighboring KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), 123 Refills is following through on its planned efforts to expand throughout the middle East.