Recycled plastics % of total plastics procured through IBM contracts for use in its products that have been recycled 12.4 12.6 10.8 12.1 2.8 Product end-of-life management IBM’s goal is to reuse or recycle end-of-life IT products such that the amount of product waste sent by IBM’s product end-of-life management (PELM) operations to landfills or incineration for treatment does not exceed a combined 3 percent of the total amount processed.