Continuing with a little more on Dell’s significant recycling/resource-saving efforts as started last week, with information taken from an article in the E-Scrap newsletter.
Not only is the Dell computer company collecting many, many no longer used computers — theirs and others — restoring and updating some of them to a usable condition, but it is also using many of the materials taken from breaking down those it can’t do anything with to put into materials for new computers.
In this effort, I found that since 2014, Dell has used about 100 million pounds of recovered materials in its products. Their goal of 100 million pounds was met during the first half of 2019. Last year, 2018, they used 22 million pounds of recovered materials. This was 31 percent greater than 2017. This was primarily due to an increase in e-plastics usage.
