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PVC Free Computers

Environment submitted by badblood 07/01/07 **IN PROGRESS**

PVC and/or BFR are toxic chemicals used in your current manufacturing processes of Dell. Nokia recently phased out these chemicals and reached number one in the Greenpeace 'electronics guide'.

Stop using PVC! 13 Comments »

Show your EPEAT ratings on the Dell website

Dell Web Site, Environment submitted by jervis961 Mar 14

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4310

"The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) has released it's evaluation for electronic products that meet "green" standards. Included in this test are desktops, monitors, notebooks and Tablet PCs."



Of the 61 Dell products evaluated NONE received less than a Silver and 7 received Gold status.

http://www.epeat.net/ 1 Comment »

Dump the little books and leaflets that come with every dell

Environment, Desktops and Laptops submitted by mobcdi 02/20/07

How about not shipping all those little leaflets in multiple languages that no one reads anyway with every dell. It should be possible to create a pdf of all the necessary regulatory information and have that displayed on the first boot.

It would save money for dell in printing and shipping costs and that might mean cheaper pc's 8 Comments »

REUSEABLE SHIPPING CONTAINERS

Environment submitted by scotty750 06/08/07

I'm an onsite tech. I've been griping for years about the large boxes for shipping parts for warranty calls that don't have handholds. And I just thought of a way to solve my gripe, make dell green and save money.

You can purchase hardened plastic laptop shipping cases that are lockable and pretty much infinitely reusable. Why not a similar solution for warranty parts.

Currently dell is using cardboard boxes. Lifespan of a box, 2 ships, out and back. if your lucky, maybe a second warranty call but not likely. cost of a box say 40 cents. number of boxes used a year??? well if we figure 30,000 systems built per day and a failure rate of say 10% (industry average is beleived to be about 15%) thats 3000 units a day that break.

Yes theres an upfront cost of purchasing the shipping cases, but they can get used an unlimited number of times. since they don't have to be constantly remade like cardboard, its a lower carbon footprint, and can lower to total cost over time from reuse. and it adds zero waste to landfill.

summary:
zero landfill
infinite reusability
lower carbon foottprint per unit over time
lower manufacturing costs over time
easy to implement
free advertising of dells commitment to green. make em a nice white with a nice big dell logo and a nice big recycle logo on it. every customer that gets a warranty repair would see the commitment to green 27 Comments »

Biodegradable Packing material

Environment submitted by ewagnerjr2000 04/19/07 **UNDER REVIEW**

When I received my 32" lcd screen it had an extremely large amount of Styrofoam. Dell is working to be environmentally friendly, maybe they should consider a better packing material at least one that will biodegrade.





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No more plastic wrap, please

Environment submitted by falbert May 22

In the last shipment of computers I received I was shocked by the amount of plastic wrap used for items like power cords, USB cables, VGA/DVI cables. Do these items really need to be individually wrapped in a plastic bag. I can just imagine the tons of plastic used by Dell annually...

Something to think about 103 Comments »

Use Less Packaging Materials than Any Other Company

Environment submitted by jerseyshore 06/05/07 **REVIEWED**

It may not be as exciting, but become the leader in using less packaging for every purchase made....less cardboard.....better packing.....and more


We have made huge strides in reducing the amount of packaging we send out with our products. For more details from todd_d, click here.




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