HP: End of Life
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Electronic waste, or E-waste, is a growing environmental concern. By designing products that can be easily upgraded to extend their useful lives and designing more recyclable products, HP reduces e-waste and its environmental impacts. | Electronic waste, or E-waste, is a growing environmental concern. By designing products that can be easily upgraded to extend their useful lives and designing more recyclable products, HP reduces e-waste and its environmental impacts. | ||
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MI Summary
HP uses a forward thinking approach to product design. A modular design allows the useful life of the product to be extended via removing, upgrading or replacing components. Recycling of the product is accounted for during design and a number of features ensure that products can be easily recycled e.g. eliminating glues & adhesives and reducing the number and types of materials used.
In addition to this HP’s Planet Partners program offers return and recycling services for many products.
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Electronic waste, or E-waste, is a growing environmental concern. By designing products that can be easily upgraded to extend their useful lives and designing more recyclable products, HP reduces e-waste and its environmental impacts.
Extending the life of products
Most of HP's products have a modular design that allows various components to be removed, upgraded or replaced which extends the useful life of the product. Servers, processors, memory, network connectivity, power supplies, and mass storage devices are upgradeable.
Design for recycling
HP products are designed to be recycled. Recycling design features include:
- Modular design to allow components to be removed, upgraded or replaced
- Eliminating glues and adhesives, for example, by using snap-in features
- Marking plastic parts weighing more than 25g according to ISO 11469 international standards, to speed up materials identification during recycling
- Reducing the number and types of materials used
- Using single plastic polymers
- Using molded-in colors and finishes instead of paint, coatings or plating
- Relying on modular designs for ease of disassembly of dissimilar recyclable materials
HP’s DfR standards include clear design guidelines and checklists that can be used to assess a product’s recyclability. This allows HP to develop more easily recyclable products.
Recycling services
HP has long been a leader in e-waste recycling. HP's Planet Partners programs offers return and recycling programs for LaserJet printer supplies, Inkjet printer supplies and all manufacturer's computer hardware in many countries around the world.
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