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Dell adds ocean plastics to its packaging

Dell plans to keep 16,000 pounds of plastic out of the oceans by developing the first commercial-scale global ocean plastics supply chain for its laptop packaging.

Dell has begun shipping its XPS 13 2-in-1 notebook in a tray made from 25% ocean plastic.
Dell has begun shipping its XPS 13 2-in-1 notebook in a tray made from 25% ocean plastic.

Computer company Dell has done its homework on plastics that end up in the ocean. According to Dell, some estimates show that there are more than 86 millionmetric tons of plastics in the oceans right now—more than 5 trillion pieces in total. The vast majority of those pieces are less than 5 mm in size. Explains Dell, that’s because the plastics break down into ever smaller pieces.

Says the company, the numbers are nearly unfathomable and the effects are far reaching:

  • 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year
  • In some places, plastic particles outnumber plankton 26 to 1 (PlasticOceans)
  • Anyone who consumes an “average amount” of seafood ingests c. 11,000 plastic particles per year (BBC)
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