Go Green With Dell

Introduction
Dell’s focus on efficiencies and customer satisfaction are seen in the products and services it supplies to the businesses it works with. That same focus helps drive Dell's environmental stewardship program to conserve product energy consumption, reduce or eliminate materials for disposal, prolong product life span and provide effective and convenient equipment recovery solutions. By streamlining business steps and processes to be as efficient as possible, Dell helps minimize stress on the environment while achieving speed, responsiveness and cost savings that are passed along to customers.

This commitment to the environment hasn’t gone unnoticed. Dell was recently awarded the National Recycling Coalition’s ninth annual Recycling Works Award. Dell’s longstanding efforts to promote individual producer responsibility was recognized for its leadership in recycling computer equipment and its global policies making it easier for customers to become effective environmental stewards. Read the press release.

"When it comes to product recovery and recycling, our commitment to our customers and our shared Earth is clear and simple: programs that help consumers make a difference will always be a cornerstone of Dell's global business," said Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell. "From the time we conceive and design a product to the point when that product is responsibly recycled, we seek to minimize our company’s impact on the world around us and empower our customers to join us."

Commitment to the Environment
When it comes to being an environmentally friendly company, Dell hardware and services talk the talk and walk the walk. From the first moment Dell engineers begin to design everything from flat panel displays to servers, they're thinking about energy efficiency and other ways they can ensure Dell products are "earth friendly." Dell is a technology partner your campus can count on to vigorously pursue environmentally sound programs that conserve product energy consumption, reduce or eliminate materials for disposal, prolong product life span and provide effective and convenient equipment recovery solutions.

Energy Saving Hardware Design
Dell’s focus on product energy efficiency is designed to help customers decrease electricity usage and system operating cost. Across the range of Dell products, energy savings are built-in.

Targeting server power efficiency is one of Dell's primary design objectives. The latest Dell PowerEdgeTM servers consume up to 25% less energy than previous generations. When combined with impressive performance gains, this results in up to three times the performance per watt over previous generations.

Dell’s versatile OptiPlex^TM  line of performance desktops is built with energy efficiency in mind. Innovations designed into the OptiPlex series, when configured with Intel^®  Core^TM  2 Duo processors and flat panel displays, allow the OptiPlex 745 to use up to 70% less power than previous generations of OptiPlex desktops, dramatically cutting consumption down.^*

Current Dell Latitude^TM  notebooks consume up to 70% less energy on average than the previous generation OptiPlex GX620. The energy saved results in a reduction of pollution to the environment.^* In addition, every 1000 units of Latitude notebooks installed instead of the OptiPlex GX620 helps reduce CO₂ emissions by approximately 1 million lbs.^*

Dell makes it easy for you to calculate energy use and your costs with Energy Calculators for some of our desktops, notebooks, servers and monitors.

Keeping Technology Out of the Trash
All hardware will eventually reach obsolescence. But where it goes once it's replaced makes the difference. Dell has Asset Recovery and Recycling Services that helps ensure your obsolete or excess computer systems are resold or recycled in an environmentally friendly way. Options include:

Disposal
Frees up physical storage space by recycling used or obsolete computer equipment in accordance with EPA guidelines.

Donation
Donate your computers to the National Cristina Foundation to help disabled and economically disadvantaged children and adults in your community.

Value Recovery
Gain value from used equipment, which can be resold.

Dell Asset Recovery and Recycling Services
Utilize Asset Recovery Services for the logistical and disposal capabilities to recover and dispose owned and/or leased computer equipment in a secure and environmentally safe way. Along with removing identifying tags and labels, the hard drive of each system we recycle is overwritten to help protect the security of your data.

Global Responsibility
Dell recognizes the role that product design, asset recovery and other environmentally friendly actions play in our responsibility toward global stewardship. We are focused on implementing features that reduce the energy required to operate our products, as well as educating customers about the importance of using these features. Dell’s pioneering direct business model optimizes manufacturing and distribution efficiencies, resulting in lower cost-of-ownership through good environmental practices. Click here for more information concerning Dell's commitment to the environment.

^*Based on the 2006 US average unit cost of energy $0.10/KWh and assuming an Annual Usage Profiles of 1 hour max performance, 7 hours office productivity, 1 hour idle and 15 hours sleep state for 264 days a year; 24 hours sleep state for 101 days.

^*Assumes Annual Usage Profile of 1 hr max performance, 7 hrs office productivity, 1 hr idle and 15 hrs sleep state for 264 days a year; 24 hrs sleep state for 101 days, with a CO2 conversion factor of .0008.