Dell Listens to Green-Minded Customers

Who here has received a huge box from Dell only to find an itty-bitty part inside? *Raises hand*

During Earth week, the computer company came under fire from bloggers for shipping tiny products in huge boxes, wasting both cardboard and packaging material. I can recycle the cardboard, but those packaging peanuts are filling up our landfills! In any case, it is better to use less than recycle more.

So, Dell is working to make things better. In response to the complaints, they have developed several long-term and short-term answers to packaging problems.

In my mind, however, the best part is that they are responding at all. Dell is a computer giant, and if a few green-minded customers don’t like what they are doing, they aren’t going to lose a ton of business for the simple fact that people need to buy their computers SOMEWHERE. If you don’t want a Mac, there are a limited number of places where you can purchase a PC, and Dell is one of the best.

Too many companies with these kind of green problems aren’t responding at all to consumer concerns, and I think it will hurt them in the long run…

*thumbs up to Dell*

You can read the full story about Dell’s plans for green packaging at Green Biz.

Picture via sxc.hu.