Supporting Progressive E-cycling Legislation

Another State Passes Progressive e-Recycling Legislation

Direct2Dell — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:06:15 GMT

I’ve posted previously on Dell’s recycling public policy and our commitment to passing substantive

Another State Passes Progressive e-Recycling Legislation

Direct2Dell — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:04:39 GMT

I’ve posted previously on Dell’s recycling public policy and our commitment to passing substantive

re: Supporting Progressive E-cycling Legislation

Bryant at Dell — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:06:52 GMT

Hi UnexpectedBill - my apologies for such a delayed response - sounds like a great idea for us to go more in depth about policy/legislation in a post - I'll talk to the recycling team and we'll work on that.

One quick thing in the meantime you may find of interest - we also have a donation program for working, used computers. Donations from consumers are matched to a non-profit organization in the donor's community. You can get to it from www.dell.com/recycling -- our partners at the National Cristina Foundation, www.cristina.org , manage the program - they do some really amazing work and have been for more than 20 years.

Thanks! Bryant

re: Supporting Progressive E-cycling Legislation

UnexpectedBill — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:57:51 GMT

This is definitely a step in the right direction. I didn't realize how serious the problem of so-called eWaste really was until I saw videos that people had made in countries and cities where this waste is dumped or disassembled.

It would be nice to know more about the legislation. Is there any possibility that a future entry on the Direct2Dell blog would explain it in short form? (I'm reading it right now, although it's not particularly exciting stuff...)

I've always been a big proponent of old computer reuse and reconditioning. A lot of computer equipment is retired before anything is wrong with it, and it seems like something could be done with such equipment on a large scale, like perhaps introducing computers to those who otherwise could not have one. There is work involved in doing this, but recycling requires effort as well. I reuse computers pretty extensively, in fact, I've even got a web server running on an old Dell Dimension L550r computer system. It works great, and keeps a perfectly good computer out of the landfill.