Mailing more goods in green packages.

Earlier this year, the tech giant that pioneered build-and-mail-to-­order computers began collecting ocean-bound plastics from beaches and waterways—and recycling the waste into “trays” for shipping its high-ticket consumer laptops. The program is expected to keep 16,000 pounds of plastics out of our oceans this year. And it’s part of a broader Dell campaign to use ‘e-waste’ plastics in its products that has already saved the company more than $1 million.