Round Rock-based Della and the Staples office supply store chain are teaming up to offer free recycling for Dell computers, printers and other products.

Under the partnership announced Wednesday, people can drop off Dell-branded PCs, monitors, keyboards, printers, mice and other accessories at any of Staples' 1,500 U.S. stores for recycling.

No purchase is required.

Framingham, Mass.-based Staples started selling Dell computers last year as part of the Dell’s expansion from made-to-order sales on the Web into retail stores.

Staples logs the incoming equipment, then hands it off Eco International.

The recycling company has worked with Staples and Dell rival Hewlett-Packard in the past.

Eco International picks up the PCs and other devices and takes them to one of its regional recycling facilities where it breaks everything down into parts and resells ones that still work.

Then, it shreds what's left over and sells those materials to manufacturers that can reuse them.