HP and the environment
For decades HP has been an environmental leader, driving company stewardship through its HP Eco Solutions program, which spans product design, reuse and recycling as well as energy and resource efficiency. HP influences industry action by setting high environmental standards in its operations and supply chain, by providing practical solutions to make it easier for customers to reduce their climate impact and through its research on sustainability solutions that support a low-carbon economy. More information is available at www.hp.com/ecosolutions.
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(1) See
Climate
and Energy – Operations.
(2) One metric tonne is
equivalent to 2,205 pounds.
(3) Total weight of the
Golden Gate Bridge, anchorages and approaches as of 1986: 1,773,979,658
pounds (804,525 metric tonnes). Source:
http://goldengatebridge.org/research/factsGGBDesign.php.
(4)
These goals were updated this year to distinguish reuse from recycling
and increase the overall amount of the target.
(5)
Through the end of fiscal year 2008; at least 50 percent recycled
plastic by weight, minimum 95 percent post-consumer.
(6)
This is a large increase over the cumulative total HP announced in early
2008 (200 million inkjet print cartridges). HP has been working with
suppliers to accurately account for the recycled content it uses. In
2008, HP reconciled recycled plastic usage from one of its large resin
suppliers; that usage is now included in HP’s totals.
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