Environment

Dell Recycling Tour: A National Success

Almost 2 million pounds of Computers Diverted From Landfills
Thanks to thousands of environmentally responsible customers throughout the U. S., the National Dell Recycling Tour has collected more than 2 million pounds of unwanted computer equipment from almost 9,000 consumers on a 17-city tour. A complete listing of cities is at the bottom of this page.

Sharing the Experience
In the fall of 2003, Dell partnered with the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) in an effort to share knowledge with professional recyclers. Together, Dell and NRC offered an electronics recycling workshop at Stanford University and brought in national experts to educate more than 50 recyclers. The workshop attendees also volunteered at a computer collection event, giving them both theoretical and "hands-on" electronics recycling experience that they could take back to their communities and pass on to others.

As a result of the success with the pilot training at Stanford, Dell and the NRC held another workshop in January 2004 in Austin, Texas. Expert speakers shared their experience with 75 recyclers who came from a dozen states to learn more about electronics recycling.

With the NRC's help, Dell continues to play a role in teaching its Dell Recycling Grant recipients and others about key learnings and best practices in electronics recycling so that everyone can play a part in responsible reuse and recycling of computers.

The Dell Recycling National Tour is designed to educate consumers that "No Computer Should Go to Waste." While computers are safe to use, they do contain some environmentally-sensitive materials that should not go into landfills. More than 98 percent of a computer can be recycled or reused back into the product stream, but only if we all work together to keep these products out of our landfills in the first place.

Results by City:

Austin/Round Rock, Texas, 103 tons Atlanta, Georgia, 74 tons Charlotte, North Carolina, 19 tons Columbus, Ohio, 30 tons Dallas, Texas, 12 tons Denver, Colorado, 250 tons Houston, Texas, 30 tons Las Vegas, Nevada, 34 tons Lexington, Kentucky, 47.5 tons Orlando/Miami, Florida, 15 tons Nashville, Tennessee, 42 tons Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 tons Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 58.5 tons Portland, Oregon, 142 tons Stanford, California, 47 tons Reno, Nevada, 40 tons Austin, TX, 55.7 tons

In each community, Dell has partnered with local organizations committed to environmental stewardship which have helped promote the event and provided dedicated, friendly volunteers. In addition, local officials have provided their support and endorsement. Collectively through these efforts, Dell has reached out to millions of consumers throughout the nation.

Dell also offers U.S. consumers the ability to register online for easy and convenient home pick-up of unwanted notebooks, desktops, monitors and select peripherals for one of the most affordable offers available anywhere. Dell customers buying new Dell printers can recycle their old printers at no additional cost. Additional information can be found at the Dell Recycling website.

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