Dell, Goodwill Add More Cities to Reconnect Program

Dell and Goodwill Industries have jointly announced that its Reconnect program has added residents in Washington, D.C., and Virginia to its program. Reconnect is a drop-off program to recycle unwanted computers. Virginia is the third U.S. state to implement a statewide Reconnect program.

Parties interested in taking part in the program can find out drop-off locations by going to www.reconnectpartnership.com. Each of the seven members of the Virginia Goodwill Network is participating, with the combined territories covering Virginia and the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Through Reconnect, consumers can drop off used computers at any of 134 Goodwill donation centers across the region. Goodwill will accept and sort the donated computer equipment and Dell's product recovery partner will recycle and remarket the recycled materials. Consumers are responsible for removing data from hard drives and other storage media before donating to Goodwill. Consumers can also request a Goodwill receipt at time of donation.

Other Reconnect programs exist in Austin, Texas (including 15 counties in Central Texas); San Francisco (Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties), San Antonio (23 counties in Central and South Texas), Houston (15 counties), North Carolina (49 counties), San Diego County, Pittsburgh, the State of New Jersey and City of Philadelphia, Northwest Ohio, Western New York State, the greater Rochester area, and throughout the state of Michigan.

The addition of Virginia and Washington, D.C. bring the total number of drop-off locations to 567.