HP and the Environment

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==MI Summary==
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== Coverage in the Press ==
== Coverage in the Press ==
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* [[HP's Printer Cartridges are an E-waste Disaster - Does the Company Really Care? (29-Oct-07)]]
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* [[HP Researchers Working on "Greener" Data Centre (27-Oct-07)]]
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* [[HP Sets New Milestones in Data Centre Energy Efficiency (23-Oct-07)]]
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* [[Is Being "Green" the new Currency for Tech Companies? (20-Sep-07)]]
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* [[HP helps Africa with recycling standards (26-Sep-07)]]
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* [[Environmental Impact of CSR for Technology Companies in China (10-Sep-07)]]
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* [[HP Unleashes Exceptional, Power Efficient Computing Performance in Latest Commercial PCs (6-Sep-07)]]
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* [[HP offers greener approach to IT (3-Sep-07)]]
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* [[HP and Bell unite to Go Green in the Data Centre (3-Sept-07)]]
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* [[HP's Green Initiatives Listed (24-Aug-2007 )]]
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* [[HP Laser Jets Help Keep Your Business in the Green]]
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* [[HP offers 3-D thermal mapping for data centers (25-Jul-07)]]
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* [[HP meets 1B pound recycling goal (13-Jul-07)]]
* [[HP unveils its green storage (11-Jul-07)]]
* [[HP unveils its green storage (11-Jul-07)]]
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* [[HP: A Case Study of HP's Social and Environmental Responsibility Strategies in Supply Chain]]
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* [[HP Meets Billion Pound Recycling Goal Six Months Early, Sets Target for 2 Billion Pounds by 2010 (13-Jul-07)]]
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* [[HP Adds to its Green Data Centre Offering]]
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* [[A True Test of HP's Green Commitment (Aug-07)]]
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==What the Vendor says about itself==
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* [[HP's commitment to environmentally sustainable development]]
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* [[HP: Environmental, Health and Safety Policy]]
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Materials innovation at HP means reducing the environmental impact of materials we select or already use for our products. This innovation often aligns with our objective of reducing materials and recycling costs. HP considers three aspects of materials innovation:  
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'''Materials Substitution and Elimination'''
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HP supports a precautionary approach, by which we mean that we strive to replace a material when scientific data has established a potential health or environmental risk, even if its use is legally permitted. Before substituting a material for these reasons, we identify an alternative that has a lower environmental impact and meets quality and cost requirements. For example, in 2006 we replaced solvent-based paints on some of our workstations and digital televisions. The water-based paints we are using avoid organic vapor emissions during the coating process and make the plastics using these paints easier to recycle.
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We work with the electronics industry and our suppliers to introduce new materials when alternatives do not yet exist. For example, we continue to investigate alternatives to PVC-coated wires and cables as well as replacements for TBBPA on printed-wiring boards.
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Ideally, we design products to remove the need for materials of concern, rather than replacing a substance with lower environmental impact.
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'''Reduction of Materials Quantity'''
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HP strives to use less material in products through improved product design and technological advances. For example, HP All-in-One products that combine printers, scanners, copiers and fax machines in a single unit can reduce materials use by up to 40%, compared to separate standalone devices.
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As the balance of products HP sells has shifted from PCs to notebooks and from cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors to flat panel displays, material use per unit has decreased. A typical flat panel display uses little more than half the weight of materials in a conventional CRT screen and requires approximately 60% less energy in use. The weight difference between PCs and notebooks is even more dramatic – typically an 80% reduction. Combined, a notebook with an additional flat screen display represents only one-third of the weight of a PC with a CRT. This smaller size saves roughly a third of the packaging weight and decreases energy consumption in transport to customers.
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HP works with suppliers to identify materials that will reduce the environmental impact of HP's products and that of our customers.
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We evaluate the total life cycle, environmental impact and cost of any new material, and we strive to identify substitute materials that have lower total environmental and health impacts than the materials they replace. It can be difficult to confirm claims for new materials because they may not have been researched as thoroughly as existing materials. For example, we cannot yet be confident about materials to replace PVC from wires and cables. Thermoplastic rubber/elastomer (TPR/TPE) and polyethylene-derived hybrids are emerging, but these materials are not sufficiently developed for wide-scale use. Long-term environmental impact assessments and safety approval for these materials have yet to be finalized.
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HP has an extensive recycling network which is a potential source of recycled plastics for use in new products. While HP would like to take advantage of this fact, the potential is limited for several reasons. The greatest difficulty is that most recycled plastics contain substances that we have eliminated from our current products. Also, mixed plastics do not have the mechanical properties necessary for use in new IT products, and it is difficult to separate dissimilar plastics during recycling to produce a homogenous material. Finally, logistical constraints limit our ability to move large volumes of material from the regions where recycling is conducted to the regions where most new products are made. Recycling is an area in which we continue to look for improvements.
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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.
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'''Extending the life of products'''
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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.
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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.
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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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HP is working to reduce each year the environmental impact of transporting our products around the world. Most of our computer and imaging products are assembled in Asia, while the majority of HP's sales are in Europe and the Americas. We typically transport these products by ship from Asia to regional distribution centers, for transport to their final destination by truck or by rail. We use air transport for lighter products, such as cameras, and when urgent deliveries are necessary. We typically produce servers in the region in which they are sold.
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Our logistics network uses significant fossil fuel for ships, trucks and aircraft. The resulting vehicle emissions contribute to climate change and can increase local air pollution. We are unable to measure these emissions because we use third parties rather than our own transport fleet.
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Our Design for Logistics program improves transport efficiency throughout HP and decreases energy use per pound of product transported. It ensures that we consider the broad logistics implications of new product packaging and transport, including issues such as pallets and truck loading (see Performance).
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We also seek to reduce environmental impacts of our logistics network through a shift from air to ocean freight where practicable. Every tonne of freight transported by air for one kilometer results in 0.6 Kg of CO2 emissions, compared to just 0.003 Kg for ocean transport1.
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*1. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/envprogram/commitment.html HP's Commitment to Environmentally Sustainable Development]
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*2. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/envprogram/envpolicy.html HP's Environmental, Health and Safety Policy]
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*3. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/return/index.html Product Return and Recycling]
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*4. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/index.html Product Design]
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*5. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/materialuse.html Material Use]
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* [[HP Fine Tunes its Strategy Around Green Computing and Energy Efficiency (Apr-07)]]
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*6. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/endoflife.html End of Life]
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*7. [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdesign/logistics.html Logistics]
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* [[Vendors and the Environment]]

Current revision as of 13:34, 30 October 2007

MI Summary

Full article: HP and the Environment

Coverage in the Press

Full article: HP Laser Jets Help Keep Your Business in the Green

An HP press release about printing, containing ten ideas for running a green business:

  1. Conserve Energy--turn off equipment when it's not being used.
  2. Produce double-sided documents whenever possible.
  3. Reduce fax-related paper waste by using digital images.
  4. Recycle--Choose suppliers who take back packaging, supplies and hardware for reuse.
  5. Detoxify--Many offices have toxic substances, such as used batteries and copier toner, on hand.
  6. Utilize energy-efficient products in your environment.
  7. Buy green--Tell suppliers that you're interested in sustainable products.
  8. Use a Balanced Deployment Model--Using a model where selective desktop, centralized workgroup and data centre printing exists will reduce your overall power consumption and supplies costs.
  9. Get employees involved
  10. Communicate--Inform suppliers and customers about your efforts.

Full article: HP Unleashes Exceptional, Power Efficient Computing Performance in Latest Commercial PCs (6-Sep-07)

An HP press release for three new desktop PCs

Full article: New Green Technology Breakthroughs for the Enterprise (07-Sep-07)

Another article on the HP-Verdiem announcement.

Full article: Verdiem Transforms Green Technology with Three Key Breakthroughs (6-Sep-07)

Verdiem and HP announce a power-management solution for HP's PCs running Verdiem's Surveyor.

  • Enables customers to measure and control energy used by PC networks, by putting PCs into low-power states.
  • Surveyor reduces PC energy consumption by a third, on average.
  • A 5,000-PC network pumps over 6 million pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere a year. Thats the same as 475 mid-size vehicles on the road.

Full article: Environmental Impact of CSR for Technology Companies in China (10-Sep-07)

HP is finding that being green and promoting corporate social responsibility can actually increase operational efficiency in China. As many as two million Hong Kong Windows-based PC users first had the opportunity to upgrade to the Vista system, but only a small handful have devices with sufficient computing capacity to run Vista. Changing technologies like Vista decreases the length of time an average user take to replace their machine and in turn will only add to the nearly 400,000 computers thrown out in Hong Kong each year. In China, where HP has over 5,000 employees, the company has recently launched a first-of-its-kind public and private sector collaboration called the Cartridges for Dragon Recycling program. Communities benefit from a reduction of illegal e-waste dumps and trash.

HP offers 3-D thermal mapping for data centres (25-Jul-07)

HP is expanding its IT operations services business, by offering 3-D thermal mapping tools that detect and manage data centre hotspots. HP Thermal Zone Mapping displays a three-dimensional model of the data centre which identifies the flow of hot and cold air. This allows customers to locate potential trouble spots and arrange air conditioning for better efficiency. The addition of thermal modelling follows HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling' (DSC) service unveiled last year. DSC uses temperature monitors attached to server racks which can alter the air conditioning aimed at the unit when necessary. HP claims that customers can reduce data centre cooling energy costs by up to 45% by using the two services together. Pricing for the services starts at around $10,000 for a check-up. A top-tier implementation which includes 3-D thermal mapping runs at an average of about $100,000.

HP meets 1B pound recycling goal (13-Jul-07)

Having met its goal six months early to recycle 1 billion pounds (lbs) of electronics, HP said it has set a new target to recycle another billion pounds by the end of 2010. For those concerned that the materials recovered are being reused in HP computers, HP said that plastics and metals retrieved from recycled products have been used to make a range of new products, including car parts, clothes hangers, plastic toys, fence posts, serving trays and roof tiles.

HP unveils its green storage (11-Jul-07)

HP has introduced green storage technology which can cut storage array power and cooling costs in data centres by 50%. The new Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVAs) help organisations that are seeking to optimise their hard drive utilisation and they have the ability to improve power efficiency by up to 45% compared with previous EVAs. In addition the corporation have enhanced the performance of tape drives based on the Linear Tape Open (LTO) 4 standard, new DAT 160 tape drives for SMBs, and the first HP storage works tape product developed exclusively for HP Blade System c-Class.

This announcement on green storage further enhances HPs dedication to delivering products that are environmentally friendlier.

HP Meets Billion Pound Recycling Goal Six Months Early, Sets Target for 2 Billion Pounds by 2010

HP has now committed to recovering a cumulative two billion pounds of electronics and print cartridges by the end of 2010; the target was set after the company met their original goal to recycle one billion pounds of electronics six months early.

This highlights HP’s commitment to environmental issues, and explains their leadership position in environmental responsibility. Other commitments of the corporation include making it practical and easy for customers to be environmentally responsible, driving significant reductions in their own environmental footprint and investing in research to further manage the environmental impacts of their products. It is exactly this effort which earned HP recognition as one of Fortune Magazine’s “Ten Green Giants” in April 2007.

HP Adds to its Green Data Centre Offering

HP has added Thermal Zone Mapping to its portfolio of green data centre services. Thermal Zone Mapping allows end users to arrange and manage air conditioning for optimal cooling. HP claims that combined with Dynamic Smart Cooling (DSC) the Thermal Zone Mapping function can result in energy cost savings of up to 45%.

However, in addition to the power and cooling issues virtualisation, systems management, and automation are all required to achieve efficient energy use.

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