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Title: Computer Disposal Goes Green


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Computer Disposal Goes Green
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  • Three billion units of consumer electronics
    potentially will become scrap between 2003 and
    2010. Thats nine gadgets thrown away for every
    person currently living in the United States.
  • PC Magazine
  • April 2008

3
Green Initiatives at MDC
  • Server virtualization
  • Desktop virtualization
  • More efficient power supplies
  • Energy Star 4, network switches
  • Power management Intel vPro
  • Document imaging
  • Computer disposal and recycling

4
The Challenges of Disposal
  • Disposing of retired IT equipment required fuel,
    vehicles and staff time
  • Decreasing returns on equipment sales
  • Hazardous materials that could end up in
    landfills EPA fines
  • Lead, mercury, brominated flame retardants,
    cadmium

5
The Solution
  • Dell Asset Recovery Services
  • Pick up from our locations statewide
  • Wiping of hard drives to DoD and State
    requirements
  • Value recovery
  • Recycling
  • Reporting

6
The Benefits
  • Less cost than doing it ourselves
  • Staff time reallocated to other work objectives
  • windshield time
  • what we do best

7
How Can You Help?
  • Properly dispose of your used equipment
  • Local hazardous waste facility
  • Sell/donate it to someone else for reuse
  • http//www.epa.gov
  • Google recycle computer
  • Manufacturers
  • Electronics stores Best Buy, Office Depot,
    Staples, Amazon
  • Some are free
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