[China Packaging Network News] Green's power has prompted Dell to continue its strategy of sustainable packaging. Today, Dell announced the start of testing using mushroom packaging. In the coming months, you will learn more about this material. We are proud to be Dell's first technology company to start testing mushroom packaging products for shipping.
Mushroom packaging is an advanced biotechnology co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It replaces polystyrene foam and polyethylene plastic foam with common agricultural waste such as cotton, rice, and wheat skins. Packaging cushions and other applied materials. We have conducted extensive tests on mushroom cushions in the laboratory to meet the high standards of our product protection during transportation. The mushroom packaging passed the test with excellent performance. Now we are ready to take the next step. Dell will initially try out the PowerEdge R710 server multipack packaging. We will put four systems in one box, which greatly reduces the use of packaging materials. For customers, reducing the number of boxes makes it easier and faster to deploy servers. A box of multiple items plus mushroom cushions has created an environmentally friendly solution. One of the best things about this is that organic mushroom cushions are very easy to degrade into fertilizers after use.
Mushroom packaging is an advanced biotechnology co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It replaces polystyrene foam and polyethylene plastic foam with common agricultural waste such as cotton, rice, and wheat skins. Packaging cushions and other applied materials. We have conducted extensive tests on mushroom cushions in the laboratory to meet the high standards of our product protection during transportation. The mushroom packaging passed the test with excellent performance. Now we are ready to take the next step. Dell will initially try out the PowerEdge R710 server multipack packaging. We will put four systems in one box, which greatly reduces the use of packaging materials. For customers, reducing the number of boxes makes it easier and faster to deploy servers. A box of multiple items plus mushroom cushions has created an environmentally friendly solution. One of the best things about this is that organic mushroom cushions are very easy to degrade into fertilizers after use.
Mushroom cushions are unique because they grow naturally, not in the traditional sense of artificial materials. The following is the production process: put the cotton shell and other wastes into a mold, then inject the mushroom strains. The buffer pad forms a root structure of the mushroom (scientific name mycelium) from a mushroom strain after a growth period of 5 to 10 days. And all of the energy needed to create these cushions is provided by carbohydrates and sugars in agricultural waste without the need to consume carbon or nuclear power.
Mushroom packaging is complemented by Dell's bamboo packaging, which was launched in November 2009. Mushroom packaging is suitable for heavier products such as servers and desktops, and bamboo packaging is more suitable for laptops and smartphones. At present, nearly half of our Inspiron series of consumer notebook products use bamboo packaging for shipping. At the same time, we began to use bamboo packaging for Latitude laptops, Streak Tablets, and VenuePro smartphones sent to corporate customers.
In the past few years, Dell has made significant progress in the development and use of environmentally friendly packaging solutions. We have adopted the 3C strategy, namely: volume (Cube, reducing the size of the box), material (Content, which materials are used in the box), and convenience recycling (Curb, using materials that can be recycled directly on the street).
At the same time we have set very positive goals. By the end of 2012, Dell plans to reduce the use of 20 million pounds of packaging materials during transportation. By 2012, we also plan to reduce the packaging of desktop and notebook computers by 10%, increase the recyclable materials in cushions and corrugated packaging materials by 40%, and ensure that 75% of the packaging materials can be recycled on the roadside.
This week we discussed this topic at the “Fortune Brainstorming Green Conference†held in California. Last week, we received positive feedback from customers, experts and bloggers who participated in the "Customer Initiative Day - Sustainable Development" campaign.
The announcement announced today is the latest step in Dell’s commitment to helping customers protect and deliver technology in an environmentally friendly manner. This is the power of green. It will help our customers do more.