In a news release on HP's corporate website dated September 21, they reported on their latest "green" initiatives. They accomplished their first goal of reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to their energy consumption by 25 percent by 2010 (since 2005). They have decided to try to attain a 40 percent (from 2005 levels) reduction by the end of 2011.
HP would also like to reduce the GHG emissions by 20 percent (also from 2005 levels) from their owned and leased facilities by 2013. This goal is independent of their business growth and seek to reduce the carbon footprint of their existing facilities worldwide. They are committed to investing in renewable energy resources and energy efficiency.
In addition to the progress mentioned above, HP has also successfully exceeded their goal set back in January of 2008 (originally set to be completed by 2010) to reduce the energy consumption of their volume PCs and laptop families by 25 percent from their 2005 levels. Their most widely produced desktop and notebook energy consumption has gone down 41 percent since 2005.
They listed many additional examples of sustainable business, but the ones that pertain to printing are as follows (as stated by HP):
HP has shipped more than 500 million inkjet cartridges through its "closed loop" inkjet cartridge recycling process, the industry's first and only such innovation that allows recycled plastic from empty cartridges returned through the Planet Partners program (which has collected more than 300 million inkjet and HP LaserJet cartridges combined) and recycled plastic from other sources to be used in the manufacture of new Original HP cartridges.
The HP Photosmart ML1000D Minilab printer helps retail customers realize a 64 percent savings in energy and an average savings of 800 gallons of chemical and water discharge per year compared to silver-halide photo finishing system.
In addition to making their own internal adjustments, HP is also committed to helping their customers become as green as possible. According to their statistics, through their product recovery, telepresence solutions and managed printing services, they have reduced almost 2 million metric tons of their customer's GHG emissions. This is equivalent to removing more than 354,000 cars of the road for one year. Also, through a variety of HP Eco Solutions services, HP estimates that their customers will be able to reduce their CO2 emissions by over 4 million tons from 2005 to 2011. This figure is equivalent to taking 741,000 cars off the road for a year. Three such parts of Eco Solutions are as follows (according to HP):
HP Halo - telepresence solutions that greatly reduce the need for business travel
HP Eco Solutions printing practice for large organizations - tools, software, services, hardware and expertise to help customers reduce their environmental impact and save money
Worldwide product recovery - recycling of products and supplies
