NRC is working closely with Dell on a variety of efforts to help build the electronics recycling and reuse infrastructure, including educational workshops and a community grant program.
After talking with NRC about the best ways for the company to support communities wishing to collect used computers, Dell announced that it would award $120,000 in a series of $10,000 grants to select U.S. communities, universities, and nonprofit organizations interested in holding computer collection events in the first half of 2004. The following organizations were awarded grants:
Anchorage, Alaska - Green Star, Inc.
San Ramon, Calif. - Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority
Washington, D.C. - D.C. Department of Public Works, Office of Recycling
Atlanta - City of Atlanta, Benjamin E. Mays Center, Tech Corps Georgia, Inc.
Kansas City, Mo. - Bridging the Gap
Jackson, Miss. - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Santa Fe, N.M. - Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency
Albany, N.Y. - Town of Bethlehem
State College, Penn. - Centre County Solid Waste Authority
Columbia, S.C. - Recycling Market Development Advisory Council
Knoxville and suburbs, Tenn. -- City of Knoxville, Solid Waste Office
Milwaukee - Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful
Grantees are using the funds to organize, promote, stage, and recycle computer equipment and they are receiving technical advise and training from the NRC.
In addition to the 12 communities receiving grants, Dell will hold five more recycling events in 2004 in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Each event will be paired with a one-day training program presented in conjunction with NRC that features national recycling experts. The training is designed for municipal and university recycling coordinators who wish to learn how to stage their own recycling events. Dell and NRC held similar events in California in October 2003 and Texas in January 2004.
NRC will continue to work with Dell as they roll out additional e-scrap recycling strategies.
Learn more about Dell's recycling program at
www.dell.com/recycling.