Some brief but interesting forestry related news from Dell, the American computer company. It will start transporting two of its latest computer products from now on (netbooks) padded with bamboo, sourced from sustainable Chinese forestry plantations.
Dell will obtain its bamboo from a sustainably managed forestry plantation in China’s Jiangxi Province. The forestry plantation in China follows Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) guidelines. Dell is working with bamboo packaging supplier Unisource Global Solutions and the bamboo will replace the usual packaging (foam etc) that is used to protect their laptops etc. The full chain of custody, from forestry plantation to end user for the bamboo will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
This change to forestry products is part of Dells overall intention to reduce its packaging and use more recyclable material such as sustainable forestry produts While its starting off using bamboo with just the two netbook items, Dell says it plans to expand the bamboo padding to more products starting in early 2010 and is also in the process of certifying the packaging for recycling so that recyclers will be aware that the material can be re used.
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