Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Announced back in June, Dell’s new free recycling program is now live, meaning you can recycle any Dell product at no cost to you, without any of those pesky requirements to buy a new Dell machine in the process. All you’ve gotta do is head on over to their site, print out your free shipping voucher, pack and ship your obsolete Dell product and then throw a little environmentally-friendly party for your environmentally-friendly bad self. We can’t say even a program like this could get Apple off the Greenpeace naughty list, but it seems worth a shot — Dell’s just making y’all look bad.

[Via Slashdot]

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Filed under: Desktops

After announcing their free computer take-back program in April — just in time for Earth Day — Apple is finally getting the program off the ground and are now accepting any old Mac or PC with the purchase of a new Mac. When you purchase a computer from the Apple Store or an Apple retail location, you can opt for the program and Apple will email you instructions and a shipping label to get your old box to their recycling center. We’re not sure it’ll quiet the company’s detractors on environmental issues, but it sure makes for a fancy press release.

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Filed under: Handsets

Cellphone users in the United Kingdom now have a more envrionmentally-friendly means of disposing of old cellphones, thanks to a new service from Envirofone that’ll give you cash for trading them in. To get rid of your phone you just check Envirofone’s website to see what they’ll give you for it and then drop it in the mail. The company will even provide as many pre-paid envelopes as you need if you’ve got a huge stash of handsets. The phones are then re-distributed to places around the world where they can be re-used or are otherwise recycled. No word on if the program will be expanded outside the U.K anytime soon.

[Via CoolSmartPhone.com]

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