pelm disposition results 2004 Product recovery and reuse analysis Since 1995, when IBM first began providing the volumes of end-of-life product and product waste it recovered and processed (i.e., resold, refurbished, or recycled) in the company’s annual corporate environmental report, through year-end 2004, IBM has documented the collection and recovery of nearly 1.2 billion pounds (more than 544 million kilograms) of product and product waste worldwide.