Surpasses the goal of recycling half a billion kilograms of its products
Among the global citizenship priority areas detailed in the report are energy efficiency of products and operations, supply chain social and environmental responsibility, and product reuse and recycling.
HP’s major global citizenship accomplishments in 2007 include:
In 2007, HP conducted 150 audits of its suppliers. The company is providing training and support to help them meet the same stringent social and environmental standards to which HP holds itself, and the suppliers are responding with great progress and a commitment to ongoing improvement.
Nearly three years ahead of schedule, HP has met its goal to reduce the annual energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions of its operations and products sold each year to 20 per cent below 2005 levels by 2010. As part of the company’s comprehensive climate change strategy and to underscore its commitment, HP has increased its target to 25 per cent below 2005 levels by 2010, and it joined the World Wildlife Fund Climate Savers program in 2008.
HP exceeded its goal to recycle 1 billion pounds (450,000 tonnes) of electronic products and supplies by the end of 2007. Now, the company has challenged itself to recover an additional 1 billion pounds for reuse and recycling by the end of 2010.
HP recycling programs have been running for 21 years now, operating in more than 40 countries, regions and territories. The programs seek to reduce the environmental impact of IT products, minimize waste going to landfills and help customers conveniently manage products at their end of life in an environmentally sound fashion.
Plastics and metals recovered from products recycled by HP have been used to make a range of new products, including auto body parts, clothes hangers, plastic toys, fence posts, serving trays and roof tiles.
In the Global Citizenship Report 2007, Mark Hurd, chairman, chief executive officer and president of HP writes:
“Climate and energy Climate change represents one of the most daunting challenges facing our planet. HP is at the forefront of providing products and solutions for an increasingly energy-efficient, low-carbon world. That starts with reducing our own impact on the environment as well as the impact of our products. For example, we are expanding our use of renewable energy, including solar power for our San Diego facility and wind power for several of our facilities in Ireland. And we are designing carbon reduction and energy efficiency into our products and solutions, from the data center to the desktop, mobile devices and digital printing. HP solutions such as Dynamic Smart Cooling can save up to 40% in data center cooling costs.
“We are more than two years ahead of schedule in meeting our commitment to cut the combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions of HP operations and products to 20 per cent below 2005 levels by 2010 – so we’ve raised our goal to 25 per cent. We’re also researching the development of low-carbon solutions that will help reduce climate impact in other parts of the economy and collaborating with other companies, policy makers and non-governmental organizations to develop effective responses to combat climate change.”
In 2007 HP started disclosing its list of suppliers, making it the first major company in the technology industry to do so. HP expects this step will promote transparency and progress in raising standards in the IT industry’s supply chain and also encourage other companies to do more to advance responsibility within their own supply chains.
