http://www.greeneyewire.com/foo/recycling-your-old-computer-equipment/ Heather's happy little blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.greeneyewire.com/foo/recycling-your-old-computer-equipment/comment-page-1/#comment-1324 GreenEye Wire»Blog Archive » Dell’s New Computer Recycling Program Is A Crock! Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:13:37 +0000 http://www.greeneyewire.com/foo/recycling-your-old-computer-equipment/#comment-1324 [...] A while back, I gave praises to Dell’s computer recycling program. Well, they’ve just changed that program, and frankly, it stinks. They took an excellent program that could have been an example to other companies and changed it to as stringent as every other company out there. They’ve made it more diffcult for non businesses to recycle computer systems. The old program allowed you to recycle up to 5 computer items from any company for $10 apiece. It was a great program. They took everything and there was no purchase necessary. They no longer do that. Now, you can only recycle old Dell products with their program. They will also recycle other computer products, but they will only do that if you buy something from Dell first. The Dell recycling page on their web site also does not easily tell you how to recycle anything but a Dell product, though they do state that you can. In fact, it is not clear from the web site if it is possible to recycle anything BUT a Dell product. I will say it is nice to see that the recycling program is free, that is an improvement. But Dell also took two steps back when they decided to remove their program of taking up to 5 computer products for $10 apiece. [...] [...] A while back, I gave praises to Dell’s computer recycling program. Well, they’ve just changed that program, and frankly, it stinks. They took an excellent program that could have been an example to other companies and changed it to as stringent as every other company out there. They’ve made it more diffcult for non businesses to recycle computer systems. The old program allowed you to recycle up to 5 computer items from any company for $10 apiece. It was a great program. They took everything and there was no purchase necessary. They no longer do that. Now, you can only recycle old Dell products with their program. They will also recycle other computer products, but they will only do that if you buy something from Dell first. The Dell recycling page on their web site also does not easily tell you how to recycle anything but a Dell product, though they do state that you can. In fact, it is not clear from the web site if it is possible to recycle anything BUT a Dell product. I will say it is nice to see that the recycling program is free, that is an improvement. But Dell also took two steps back when they decided to remove their program of taking up to 5 computer products for $10 apiece. [...]

]]> http://www.greeneyewire.com/foo/recycling-your-old-computer-equipment/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Bryantat Dell Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:11:37 +0000 http://www.greeneyewire.com/foo/recycling-your-old-computer-equipment/#comment-690 thanks for recognition of Dell's efforts and for attention to the issue of finding convenient recycling resources for used computers for consumers. Wanted to be sure you knewsould know that Dell has committed to providing free recycling of anything Dell-branded, regardless of replacement purchase, and will launch that service in the US before the end of September. This service includes home pick-up of the used computer. thanks for recognition of Dell’s efforts and for attention to the issue of finding convenient recycling resources for used computers for consumers. Wanted to be sure you knewsould know that Dell has committed to providing free recycling of anything Dell-branded, regardless of replacement purchase, and will launch that service in the US before the end of September. This service includes home pick-up of the used computer.

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