Dell cuts recycling program costs.

A Dell Earth Day promotion has lowered the cost of its recycling services.

For a limited time, Dell will refurbish or recycle an unlimited number of old computer systems from its business customers without an upfront cost provided the technology meets certain specifications. Dell says its Asset Recovery Services will remove customers' old hardware and refurbish or recycle the computers based on strict environmental guidelines.

Dell also has reduced the price of computer recycling for consumers from $15 to $10. Additionally, Dell continues to offer free recycling to consumers who purchase new desktop or notebook computers or printers.

Dell's global donation partner the National Cristina Foundation continues to offer U.S. consumers a free donation program for used computers.

"We want to meet our customer needs at all stages of the product lifecycle," Ken Hashman, vice president of Dell Deployment Services, says. "Dell's operational excellence helps enable us to provide this great service very efficiently. Our goal is to help customers recover value from technology, and ensure that unusable hardware is responsibly recycled," he says.

"We took advantage of Dell's recycling offer and had a positive experience," Autotrader.com CIO Dan Crowe says. "Dell took care of both the complex reporting we needed and managed the recycling process in an environmentally responsible way, which is of great value to our company."

In related news, the Dell Asset Recovery Service has received ISO 14001 certification from the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI). The Irish certification demonstrates that Dell has continual process improvement programs around its product recovery operations in place and that these practices are investigated by external audits, according to a Dell news release.