Dell Highlights Environmental, Giving and Community Achievements in FY13 Corporate Responsibility Summary Report
26 Juni 2013 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Dell today announced key corporate responsibility achievements
with the release of its Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) Corporate
Responsibility Summary Report. Building on Dell’s Powering the
Possible platform, a commitment to put technology and expertise to
work where it can do the most good for people and the planet, the
report outlines Dell’s environmental progress and notable efforts
to support communities globally.
Environment
Dell recorded a year of strong environmental achievements in
FY13, which ended Feb 1, 2013. The company reached its long-term
goal of collecting 1 billion pounds of electronic waste a full year
ahead of schedule while also meeting its strict packaging reduction
commitments. Dell also became one of the first to introduce
EPEAT-registered printers, setting a high industry standard for
sustainability.
- In FY13, Dell recycled more than 170
million pounds of end-of-life computer equipment globally, taking
the company past the 1 billion pound take-back goal set in 2008.
The company also expanded the use of recycled-content plastics by
using 7.8 million pounds of recycled-content plastics in its
flat-panel monitors and OptiPlex desktop systems – a 6 percent
increase over FY12.
- Dell achieved the last of its 3Cs
(cube, content, curb) packaging strategy. The “curb” goal, which
was to make more than 75 percent of desktop and notebook packaging
material compostable or recyclable at curbside, makes it easier for
customers to engage in responsible recycling efforts.
- Dell collaborated with EPEAT to create
an imaging products category for their registry and became one of
the first companies to offer EPEAT-registered printers. Dell also
began working with the Green Electronics Council (GEC) to expand
EPEAT categories to include servers in future updates. This work
was in addition to Dell’s ongoing collaboration with the
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program,
helping to develop new standards that enable customers to easily
identify the most energy-efficient products.
- Dell remained committed to seeking
industry-wide solutions for eliminating the use of BFRs, CFRs, and
PVCs. As such, Dell’s entire XPS notebook suite, including the
company’s award-winning XPS 12, became BFR-CFR- and PVC-free in
FY13.
- Dell doubled the number of its global
facilities purchasing 100 percent of their electricity needs from
renewable sources from seven to 16 during FY13. Dell’s global
renewable electricity purchases in FY13 totaled 22.6 percent of the
company’s total energy consumption.
Communities
Working closely with community and nonprofit organizations,
Dell’s FY13 strategic giving efforts were focused on going beyond
funding to apply technology, expertise and volunteerism towards
solving pressing social issues.
- As part of Dell’s Children’s Cancer
Care initiatives, Dell experts worked closely with partner
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) to deliver a
high-performance computing solution for genomic research involving
pediatric cancer, compressing the time it takes to analyze a
patient’s molecular data from days to hours. Dell also delivered
the TGen-Dell KIDS Cloud, which stores huge amounts of critical
clinical and molecular patient information and enables
professionals across the world to collaborate on targeted care
strategies.
- Dell enabled the American Red Cross to
fundamentally change its disaster response by launching the Red
Cross Digital Operations Center (DigiDOC), the world’s first social
media command center for humanitarian aid. DigiDOC was successfully
activated during Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Isaac and several other
natural disasters during 2012.
- Dell added four new countries –
Ireland, Nigeria, the Philippines and Singapore – to its youth
learning programs in FY13, expanding its reach to 15 countries and
more than 2,600 community locations worldwide. The company also
built on the success seen from the Dell Social Innovation Challenge
by launching the Dell Education Challenge, a new competition
focused on finding solutions to today’s biggest challenges in K-12
education.
- Dell team members volunteered more than
707,000 hours in their communities, greatly surpassing Dell’s
company goal of 500,000 hours and making a three-fold increase in
volunteerism since 2010. More than half of Dell’s global workforce,
56 percent, participated in community service activities with more
than 15,000 charities in 60 countries.
People
Dell is committed to building strong, inclusive teams that draw
upon diverse perspectives to effectively collaborate on meeting its
strategic goals. In FY13, Dell continued to invest in both internal
and external initiatives that foster a fully engaged and inclusive
workforce.
- Dell expanded its Connected Workplace
program now being offered in 37 locations across 26 countries. In
addition to creating greater work-life balance, the program also
avoided an estimated 13 million kWh of energy, 6,785 metric tons of
greenhouse gas emissions (as MTCO2e) and more than $14 million in
annualized expenses.
- In FY13, Dell grew Employee Resource
Group (ERG) participation by 45 percent. The company now has 95
Dell ERG chapters globally with more than 10,000 team members
engaged in one or more groups.
- As part of a $1 million, multi-year
commitment announced in FY13, Dell helped create the Catalyst
Research Center for Career Pathways, which tracks previously
unstudied trends and demographics related to women’s careers in
order to uncover why gender and achievement gaps exist and how they
differ from country to country.
Supply chain
In FY13, Dell continuously worked to adhere to responsible
business practices and require its suppliers to uphold equal social
and environmental standards.
- Dell leveraged its role in the IDH
Electronics Program to collaborate with participating suppliers,
conducting assessments and defining next steps to improve
worker-management communication and working conditions.
- In FY13, Dell continued following the
industry standard it helped establish in FY12, requiring all Dell
suppliers to follow the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition
(EICC)-approved Conflict-Free Smelter Program audit protocols to
keep their smelters conflict-free.
- Dell spent more than $3.4 billion with
diverse suppliers in FY13 and continued supporting their growth
through intensive training and mentoring programs. Dell’s
investments with women- and minority-owned suppliers again
qualified the company for Billion Dollar Roundtable status and
represented a 16 percent increase over its FY12 diverse supplier
spend.
Dell also produces a report aligned with the Global Reporting
Initiative’s guidelines. Later this year, Dell will publish a more
comprehensive, forward-looking report in which the company will
launch a framework of 2020 goals across its corporate
responsibility focus areas.
Quotes
“At Dell, we truly strive to put our technology and expertise to
work where it can do the most good – whether it’s influencing
cancer research, aiding in the event of a natural disaster, or
making it easier for our customers to reduce their environmental
footprint. We are committed to giving others the power to do more
by catalyzing the best of what we do and who we are to facilitate
the progress we hope to see.” -- Trisa Thompson, Vice President,
Corporate Responsibility
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