Due to the high cost of labour, MRI's circuit boards are sent to an ISO14000 certified Korean company which extracts the gold and other precious metals from the board's circuitry. MRI's glass recycling is sent to Visy recycling to be processed in-country.
Credit: Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia
Nice photographs, Liam! Just so that there's no confusion, Dell doesn't claim to the 'greenest IT company in the world' but that IS what it is aiming to become. It's already made some significant steps in that direction including last year's commitment to becoming carbon neutral and the green technology design competition that opens this month (http://www.regeneration.org/) not to mention the free PC recycling service for consumers and small businesses that was the focus of our visit to MRI.
I started the New Year in a new role outside Dell but will always be very proud of the leadership the company has shown on sustainablity.
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The photos are so dark.