This is really good news. We are the proud owners of a Dell laptop that has been dying a slow, painful death for the last year and a half. It's been hard to watch as the little guy wheezes and groans through his final days. We'll see if we can squeeze a few more good months out of it ... but then what?
What do you do with a semi-useless laptop? There are electronic recycling services -- and we've had good luck with our local e-recycling providers. But that's not an option everywhere.
Luckily -- and we just learned this today -- Dell has teamed up with Staples to provide free recycling of any Dell product. This is super convenient for us. We have a Staples less than three miles away -- which is probably pretty common.
There are 1500 Staples across the country.
We're thrilled because when this guy (who we're lovingly click-clacking away on right this moment) bites the dust, we're happy to know he'll be put to good use again in some other form.
via Unplugged Living
image via dell.com
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yes but the question is where does it go from staples and how is it recycled?
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"The program adheres to Dell's recycling policies, which prohibit export of waste and the landfill of any environmentally sensitive materials."
I found this blurb, so hopefully this means it won't be shipped to some e-waste landfill in China.
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there was a project in readymade or maybe on instructables for turning a semi obsolete laptop into a media deck in your living room--i thought that was really wonderful & clever, it even had a sliding shelf for a keyboard & the screen was separated from the keyboard/drive & mounted on the wall...
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