Dell and the environment: green is out, brown is in
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007[UPDATE: December 03, 2008 @ 5:11pm EST]
Dell has responded to this post. I like the outcome!
I have been meaning to write about this for a while, and today was the last straw.
The company I work for orders all of their computers from dell. About 4 months ago we started receiving random Adobe Acrobat Standard CDs & licenses for free with every single computer that we purchase. We did not request these CDs. At first, they came inside of the box with the computer. Soon, they started arriving in a padded envelope. After that, they began arriving in their own box, complete with paper padding, and a padded envelope. We have received well over 100 of these.
Today, a new shipment of computers came in (just 6), and we got 6 boxes, filled with packaging materials, a padded envelope, and a single Adobe Acrobat Standard. What shocked me, and added fuel to the fire, was that the boxes have now gotten bigger. A single Adobe Acrobat CD, in a DVD sized case, nows comes in a box that measures 10×19x10, complete with padding & padded envelope!
Please see photos below (the newest, largest box can be seen at the bottom of the pile):
Boxes & Packaging
Contents of the above boxes
Dell is being more BROWN and less GREEN with this method of packaging. They should be more environmentally conscious when it comes to shipping things. I wonder how much extra it cost to ship out those boxes, with packaging, and padded envelope.