• Advancing Sustainability Moonshot Goal

      By 2030, for every product a customer buys, we will reuse or recycle an equivalent product. 100% of our packaging will be made from recycled or renewable material. More than half of our product content will be made from recycled or renewable material.

      Sustainable production is critical in the modern economy. With the current population growth and ecosystem pressures, our society’s longtime approach of discarding materials as “waste” is unsustainable.

      Our moonshot goal calls for taking back what we produce and significantly scaling our adoption of recycled and renewable materials. These two actions, along with Dell Technologies’ design methodology to optimize product reusability and recyclability, support the future of the circular economy. We continue to assess sustainability tradeoffs when identifying alternative material sources for the least impact on our planet, that also meet our performance requirements.

      Understanding the challenges to sustainable materials use, recycling and reuse is key to this goal. Dell engages customers through social media and other content to share about the relevance of a circular economy in everyone’s lives. We conduct research to determine how consumers are motivated or challenged to recycle. We continuously enhance our recycling offerings, including our new optional service to move customers’ data from their old to new systems and wipe their old systems before recycling.

    Goal Performance to Date About Our Performance in FY21 Related U.N. Sustainable
    Development Goals
    MOONSHOT GOAL

    By 2030, for every product a customer buys, we will reuse or recycle an equivalent product. 100% of our packaging will be made from recycled or renewable material. More than half of our product content will be made from recycled or renewable material.
    By 2030, for every product a customer buys, we will reuse or recycle an equivalent product

    Percentage of product collected (total units captured for recycling and reuse over the amount of products sold)

    		 In FY21, Dell Technologies recovered 9.6% of products sold to our customers (this percentage is the total units collected for recycling and reuse over the amount of products sold). This represents a 0.5 percentage point increase compared to our FY20 baseline. We attribute this increase to record unit sales in FY21 and a year-over-year increase of 6% in unit collections. While COVID-19 presented collection-related challenges for our customers and Dell, we grew our collection at an even greater rate than our units sold in the year.1
    By 2030, 100% of our packaging will be made from recycled or renewable material

    Percentage of recycled/renewable material content in packaging

    		 In FY21, 87% of our packaging was made from recycled or renewable material content. This is a 2 percentage point increase compared to our FY20 baseline. We attribute this increase to improved sourcing options as our suppliers began their transition to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified corrugate. In FY21, Dell began requesting its packaging materials suppliers focus on sourcing FSC-certified corrugate.2
    By 2030, more than half of our product content will be made from recycled or renewable material

    Percentage of recycled/renewable content in products

    		 In FY21, 3.9% of the material used in our products was made from recycled or renewable material content. This represents a 0.4 percentage point increase compared to our FY20 baseline. We attribute this increase to our expanded usage of post-consumer recycled plastic across many displays and notebooks, as well as an increase in reclaimed carbon fiber content. Additionally, the evolution to smaller and lighter technology decreased the overall volume of product materials used.

    • 1 We may have to adjust for future products that have yet to come to market or those that are no longer on the market. In some cases, we may have to continue to use the weight-based assumption. A weight to unit conversion is used when unit count is unavailable.

      2 This metric only applies to known Dell customer packaging programs. Recyclability/compostability of packaging materials is not measured as part of this goal. The FY20 baseline was extrapolated from calendar year data.