Jobs also addressed the looming problem of electronic waste as it concerns Apple products. Just last month, Apple sold the 100 millionth iPod, and yesterday Jobs said the company would expand its iPod takeback and recycling programs — currently available only to iPods brought to Apple Stores in the U.S. — to all Apple Stores worldwide, and would introduce mail-in recycling of iPods to U.S. customers as well. Although there is no current standard to measure how effective a company's e-waste recycling programs are, Jobs used Dell's benchmark of comparing recycling to the total sales seven years prior. Assuming a seven-year lifespan for most electronic products, Jobs said Apple recycled 9.5 percent of its e-waste last year, and that he expects the company to steadily increase the amount of recycling it undertakes each year. The announcement came a week before Apple's annual meeting, when shareholders will vote on two resolutions aimed to push the company toward exactly these kinds of environmentally friendly practices.