HP: End of Life
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| + | ===Product Design=== | ||
| + | HP's greatest environmental impact is through customer use of our products and services. Our goal is to improve customers' lives and work by providing simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. We integrate environmental considerations into our business strategy because this results in better products. | ||
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| + | Customers increasingly value environmental aspects of products, such as energy efficiency and provisions for reuse and recycling, two of HP's global citizenship priorities (discussed in detail in those sections). We differentiate our products by integrating such features to deliver lower total cost of ownership and improved user experience. | ||
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| + | Since 1992, we have focused on specific environmental issues – through our Design for Environment program. For example, HP introduces new materials to meet customer expectations, to capitalize on emerging technologies and to substitute for materials of concern. | ||
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| + | In packaging, we minimize materials, utilize recycled and recyclable materials when possible, and reduce packaging size and weight to improve transportation fuel efficiency. | ||
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| + | As a global company with customers worldwide, product transport also offers opportunities to improve our environmental impact. Through logistics initiatives such as more efficient transport planning and alternative pallets, we reduce the energy needed to move each product. | ||
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| + | We also work to ensure that as many people as possible can use our products and information, by integrating accessibility into product and website design. | ||
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| + | ====Design for the Environment==== | ||
| + | As one of the world’s largest consumer IT companies, a leading IT supplier to small and medium-size businesses and a leader in enterprise computing, HP’s largest impact on the environment is through its products. | ||
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| + | The environmental performance of products is largely determined at the design stage. Through intelligent design we can reduce the environmental impact of our products, and that of our customers. | ||
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| + | To accomplish this objective, HP established its Design for Environment (DfE) program in 1992. | ||
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| + | '''Design-for-Environment (DfE)''' is an engineering perspective in which the environmentally related characteristics of a product, process or facility are optimized. Together, HP's product stewards and product designers identify, prioritize and recommend environmental improvements through a company-wide DfE program. HP's DfE guidelines derive from evolving customer expectations and regulatory requirements, but they are also influenced by the personal commitment of its employees. | ||
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| + | The Design for Environment program has three priorities: | ||
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| + | * Energy efficiency – reduce the energy needed to manufacture and use our products | ||
| + | * Materials innovation – reduce the amount of materials used in our products and develop materials that have less environmental impact and more value at end-of-life | ||
| + | * Design for recyclability – design equipment that is easier to upgrade and/or recycle | ||
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| + | ===End of Life=== | ||
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. | ||
| - | ===Extending the life of products=== | + | ====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. | 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=== | + | ====Design for recycling==== |
HP products are designed to be recycled. Recycling design features include: | HP products are designed to be recycled. Recycling design features include: | ||
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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. | 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=== | + | ====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. | 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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| + | *4. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/index.html Product Design] | ||
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*6. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/endoflife.html End of Life] | *6. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/endoflife.html End of Life] | ||
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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.
Text of Article
Product Design
HP's greatest environmental impact is through customer use of our products and services. Our goal is to improve customers' lives and work by providing simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. We integrate environmental considerations into our business strategy because this results in better products.
Customers increasingly value environmental aspects of products, such as energy efficiency and provisions for reuse and recycling, two of HP's global citizenship priorities (discussed in detail in those sections). We differentiate our products by integrating such features to deliver lower total cost of ownership and improved user experience.
Since 1992, we have focused on specific environmental issues – through our Design for Environment program. For example, HP introduces new materials to meet customer expectations, to capitalize on emerging technologies and to substitute for materials of concern.
In packaging, we minimize materials, utilize recycled and recyclable materials when possible, and reduce packaging size and weight to improve transportation fuel efficiency.
As a global company with customers worldwide, product transport also offers opportunities to improve our environmental impact. Through logistics initiatives such as more efficient transport planning and alternative pallets, we reduce the energy needed to move each product.
We also work to ensure that as many people as possible can use our products and information, by integrating accessibility into product and website design.
Design for the Environment
As one of the world’s largest consumer IT companies, a leading IT supplier to small and medium-size businesses and a leader in enterprise computing, HP’s largest impact on the environment is through its products.
The environmental performance of products is largely determined at the design stage. Through intelligent design we can reduce the environmental impact of our products, and that of our customers.
To accomplish this objective, HP established its Design for Environment (DfE) program in 1992.
Design-for-Environment (DfE) is an engineering perspective in which the environmentally related characteristics of a product, process or facility are optimized. Together, HP's product stewards and product designers identify, prioritize and recommend environmental improvements through a company-wide DfE program. HP's DfE guidelines derive from evolving customer expectations and regulatory requirements, but they are also influenced by the personal commitment of its employees.
The Design for Environment program has three priorities:
- Energy efficiency – reduce the energy needed to manufacture and use our products
- Materials innovation – reduce the amount of materials used in our products and develop materials that have less environmental impact and more value at end-of-life
- Design for recyclability – design equipment that is easier to upgrade and/or recycle
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End of Life
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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Source
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