Weight recycled as % of past sales

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Weight recycled as a percentage of past sales. Example: <a href='http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/'>A Greener Apple</a> Currently, there is no industry standard way to measure the effectiveness of a company's recycling programs. Dell has proposed a simple measure - assume a seven year product lifetime, and measure the percentage of the total weight you recycle each year compared to the total weight of what you sold seven years earlier. This makes sense to us, and has the added ad

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effectiveness, recycle, sales

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Category: Environment · Added: May 17, 2026