Dell announces product recovery partners.

Dell, Round Rock, Texas, will work with Dallas-based Resource Concepts Inc. (RCI) and California-based Image Microsystems Inc., with locations in Los Angeles and Austin, to support its environmental programs for obsolete computer equipment.

Dell is building a national network of approved recyclers to improve the economics and convenience of computer recycling for its customers across America and to properly dispose of customers' old systems with minimal environmental impact.

"We remain committed to making computer recycling affordable and easy for customers and to building a competitive business infrastructure for computer recycling and reuse," Pat Nathan, Dell's senior executive for the environment, says. "Our environmental partnership with RCI and Image Microsystems is an important step toward that goal."

Dell's criteria for its recycling vendors requires hardware demanufacturing; no exporting of environmentally sensitive waste to developing countries; no disposing of environmentally sensitive materials in landfills; maximizing the amount of materials recovered for reuse; and employing of processes and certifications that protect worker safety. Dell continues to evaluate other potential recycling vendors.