Allan Gerlat, News Editor

December 14, 2011

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Dell, Goodwill Expand Electronics Recycling Program

Dell Inc. is expanding its electronics recycling program with Goodwill Industries International Inc.

Through the partnership, Dell Reconnect, the Round Rock, Texas-based Dell and the

Rockville, Md.-based Goodwill are adding 319 additional donation sites in four states, Alabama, Kansas, Florida and Ohio. The move brings the total participating locations in the United States and Canada to 2,600. It adds 6.8 million households to the free Dell Reconnect program, which provides an opportunity to recycle end-of-life computer equipment.

Dell said in a news release it has diverted more than 230 million pounds of unwanted equipment from landfills since its launch in 2004. Dell is on target to reach its goal of recycling one billion pounds of end-of-life computer equipment by 2014. 

“The tremendous success and growth we’ve experienced with Dell Reconnect would not have been possible without the great collaborative relationship with Goodwill,” said Beth Johnson, Dell Reconnect program manager.

 

About the Author(s)

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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