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HP has a long and distinguished tradition of environmental activism with roots reaching deep into its past. The following timeline reflects the early, organic rise of environmental practices and shifts to corporate level practices and initiatives up to present day.
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2008 Milestones

  • HP qualifies for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) SmartWay labeling program to reduce fuel consumption and emissions of surface transportation carriers.
  • HP is the first company to have the SmartWay logo placed on its product packaging.
  • HP is the first IT company to release the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its products manufacturing.
  • HP introduces the HP Deskjet D2545 Printer, HP's first printer with 83% of its total plastic weight made from recycled plastics and features 100% recyclable packaging.
  • HP wins Walmart's environmental design challenge by replacing a PC's conventional cardboard and plastic packaging with a reusable bag made from 100% recycled materials.
  • HP reduces the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its energy use by 4% compared to 2007.(1)
  • HP recovers for reuse 3.5 million hardware units weighing 75 million pounds(2) and increased its recycling volume to 265 million pounds globally.
  • HP has recovered a total of 1.71 billion pounds of electronic products and supplies to date - almost the total weight of the Golden Gate Bridge.(3)
  • HP's progress includes recycling 1.435 billion pounds to date and reusing over 275 million pounds of electronic products and supplies.(4)
  • HP expands its audit program for reuse and recycling vendors and posts the results of 2008 on-site audits.
  • Research organization IDC awards HP with the Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise (GRADE) certification.
  • Through the new HP Consumer Buyback and Planet Partners Recycling Program, consumers receive cash back for their unwanted PCs, monitors, printers, digital cameras, PDAs and smartphones of any brand.
  • HP expands the HP Planet Partners print cartridge return and recycling program to include HP authorized retail recycling locations for HP ink cartridge and LaserJet toner cartridge collection.
  • HP announces an industry-first engineering breakthrough that uses recycled cartridges and other materials, such as plastic water bottles, in the manufacture of new Original HP inkjet cartridges.
  • Since 2005, HP has used more than 32 million pounds of recycled plastic resin(5) in more than 565 million inkjet print cartridges.(6)
(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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