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Going Green |
As one of the world's largest IT enterprises, HP's largest impact on the environment is through its products. HP is committed to providing products and services that are environmentally sound throughout their lifecycles. Environmental impacts can occur at every stage of the product lifecycle: from product design, through manufacturing and transport, to use by customers and, finally, disposal at the end of a product's life.
Minimizing these impacts is a complex challenge, as well as an opportunity. HP is applying advanced design expertise to create innovative products and services that provide reduced environmental impact. This aligns with HP customers' expectations of high performance, low cost, and minimum environmental impact, and provides HP with a source of competitive advantage. For example, materials-efficient and energy-efficient laptops are replacing desktop PCs for many customers, and the transition to flat panel displays helps reduce energy consumption. In addition, HP employs environmental design that does not compromise other product requirements such as quality, reliability, and price.
Delivering value on social, environmental, and financial dimensions is challenging for several reasons.
Central to this challenge is managing product design to meet various regulations that affect the design of our products. HP actively works with governments, industry partners and other stakeholders to attempt to harmonize these regulations and achieve our shared environmental goals in a manner that is consistent with technological innovation.
Another aspect of this challenge is the need to design products with materials that will have value and be easily recycled in the future. HP considers multiple recycling scenarios and incorporates basic design rules that make product disassembly and recycling easier, such as reducing the variety of plastics used in products and minimizing the use of paint and adhesives. We are engaging the recycling industry to understand and potentially influence how recycling technologies will evolve over time for increased customer and environmental benefit.
We continue to work toward a balance between environmentally responsible design, customer needs, and cost.
HP lifecycle stages consist of the following:
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Design
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- Design for Environment (DfE) features allow products to meet eco-labels that demonstrate conformance with international environmental expectations and green procurement criteria
- DfE increases materials efficiency and energy efficiency
- Recycled content is used, when feasible
- Design for Recyclability (DfR) features facilitate disassembly and recycling
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Raw materials
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- Materials reduction and use of recycled materials decrease virgin materials use
- Reduction in the number of materials used potentially adds value at end of life
- Reduction in product size uses fewer resources
- Recycled plastics are used in some scanner products
- Restricted substances are reduced or eliminated
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Manufacturing
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- Award-winning environmental management at HP inkjet cartridge manufacturing facilities
- Supplier Code of Conduct ensures suppliers address key HP environmental requirements including General Specification for Environment (GSE)
- DfR features allow for easier product assembly
- Efficient operations reduce emissions and waste from manufacturing operations
- Global ISO 14001 certification delivers effective environmental management processes
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Distribution
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- Smaller, lighter products decrease CO2 emissions and transportation impacts and costs
- Improved packaging design increases the number of products per pallet, reducing environmental burden due to more efficient shipments
- Transportation by sea allows for more efficient shipments with lower environmental impact
- HP participation in Clean Cargo and Green Freight Groups promotes industry-wide reduction in environmental impact
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Use
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- Efficient product design, longer battery life and enhanced power management decrease energy consumption
- Multi-function products reduce energy and materials use
- Environmental product features reduce total cost of ownership
- Server center optimization reduces system energy use
- HP printing features enable efficient and reliable printing, reducing paper waste and cartridge use
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End-of-life
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- HP offers a variety of end-of-life activities, including asset recovery, re-use, and refurbishment, trade-ins, donation, and recycling
- Materials selection and identification increases value at end-of-life and facilitates recycling
- Design features increase ease of disassembly, recycling, and material re-use
- Goal to recycle 1-billion pounds of electronic products and supplies by 2007
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HP Return and Recycle Programs
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HP offers customers several choices to manage aging or unwanted computers while also minimizing the impact on the environment:
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Trade In
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HP Trade-In offers users the opportunity to capture the fair market value of aging technology and upgrade to new HP technology. Covers every product category, and accepts both HP and non-HP products.
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Recycle
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HP makes it easy to recycle unwanted computer hardware and printing supplies responsibly:
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- Recycle HP inkjet and LaserJet cartridges for free
- Recycle any brand of computer hardware
- Drop off locations for rechargeable batteries in the U.S. and Canada
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Return for cash
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HP Financial Services will pay SMC for qualified computer equipment SMC no longer wants or needs:
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- Equipment will be refurbished and resold
- All data will be removed to ensure data security
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Donate
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HP makes it easy to donate SMC's used computer equipment. In the US, this program is made possible through a partnership with the National Cristina Foundation (NCF).
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Technology can help transform the learning environment, but the transformation will not be pervasive unless the whole campus environment is IT enabled.
HP Business PC Solutions is a portfolio of offerings for product lifecycle management, security, and mobility and wireless technology-all delivered through a single industry-leading partner.
These solutions can help SMC achieve your academic and business potential and lower IT costs through maximizing asset utilization, extending your reach and gaining extra time and resources. All this adds up to a better return on SMC's IT investment, with the capabilities and features available through
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HP Lifecycle Solutions
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Easily assess IT processes for optimization, identify the highest opportunity areas, and select the right combination of tools, products and services to help optimize SMC's IT environment. From packaged products like HP Client Management Solution to full-service solutions such as Access on Demand, HP Lifecycle Solutions help SMC be more productive and gain time to focus on your student and faculty.
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HP Security Solutions
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These industry-leading security solutions are designed and developed to meet the most demanding security needs of businesses today, as well as to accommodate future technology. HP has a full range of measures to protect client assets and data and to control network access and resources. Stable and consistent hardware platforms, HP and partner software, and worldwide consulting and support from HP Services all work together to safeguard SMC's most sensitive corporate assets.
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HP Mobility and Wireless Solutions
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HP's secure wireless products incorporate industry standards and provide leading wireless speed, reach and security. Our extensive portfolio of small, light and mobile wireless products, equipped with the latest security features, includes Pocket PCs, Tablet PCs, notebooks, powerful mobile workstations and printers. HP mobile wireless products and solutions can help SMC create an enhanced learning environment.
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Built-in Tools and Services
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Straight out of the box, HP provides built-in cost of ownership into its PC products through common images and options as well as stable and consistent product configurations with up to 15-month lifecycles. Additional value-add solutions in the lifecycle portfolio include 60-day proactive change notification and hardware tracking, monitoring and management tools through HP Client Manager Software.
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Asset Recovery and Disposal Services
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An example of how these services can reduce ownership costs is illustrated by IDC. Not having an established process of reselling hardware at the end of their life, many colleges and universities are missing a valuable cost-recovery opportunity. IDC estimates that most corporations store old computer equipment for up to three years at a cost of about $360 per machine, and then pay an additional $218 for its eventual disposal. (Source: Infoworld, 4/7/00)
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IDC estimates that the cost of refurbishing computers for resale is $318 per machine, which is offset by an average wholesale price of $200, reducing net disposal cost to $118. Utilizing HP asset management, removal and recovery services can help SMC realize these savings.
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System Ergonomics & Energy Star Compliance to save Energy Costs
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HP has been an active partner with the US EPA on Energy Star since its introduction in the early 1990s. We participated in the development and updating of Energy Star standards for a wide variety of products including Printers, Televisions, Computing Products, and actively participated in the recent EPA conference on servers and data centres.
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On January 8th 2008, at CES, HP made the following announcement:
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HP to Reduce PC Energy Usage by 25 Percent, Leads Industry in EPEAT-Gold Products
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Tuesday January 8, 7:45 am ET
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) committed to reduce the energy consumption(1) of its volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent by 2010.(2)
HP also now leads the industry in the number of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT™) Gold listed products with the introduction of more than two dozen PCs registered in North America at either the Gold or Silver rating levels.
"HP for decades has been integrating environmentally responsible components and processes across the entire product lifecycle," said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. "We are dedicated to meeting our energy consumption goal of 25 percent reduction by 2010, and these additional EPEAT-Gold registrations exemplify how HP leads the IT market in reducing the environmental impact of its products and business processes."
HP has long focused on developing products designed with the environment in mind, and it was the first PC manufacturer to register an EPEAT Gold product with the HP Compaq rp5700 Long Lifecycle Business Desktop PC in 2007.
The EPEAT system helps shoppers evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on the products' environmental attributes. EPEAT evaluates electronic products according to three tiers of environmental performance: Bronze, Silver and Gold.
New HP business products meeting the most rigorous, Gold status include the HP Compaq 2510p and HP Compaq 2710p Business Notebook series PCs and all models of the HP Compaq dc7800, dc5750 and dc5700 Business Desktop PC families.
HP also has a diverse array of new consumer desktop and notebook PCs that are U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR® qualified and EPEAT Silver listed. The new notebooks include the HP Pavilion dv9700, dv6700, dv2700 and tx1000 series, along with the Compaq Presario A9000, F700 and C700 series. In desktops, HP is introducing the HP Pavilion a6360 available in North America a variety of customizable configurations on the HP Home and Home Office online store.
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Reducing PC energy consumption |
HP expects to reach its 2010 energy reduction goal through a variety of strategies, including integrating such components as more efficient power supplies and lower-energy chipsets and other energy-saving technologies and processes across its volume PC portfolio.
The products recently listed as EPEAT Gold incorporate various features to help businesses reduce their environmental impact. For example, the HP Compaq dc7800 Business Desktop PC is loaded with energy-efficient features, starting with the latest Intel® Core™ 2 Duo(3) processors, which consume less energy and deliver more performance than previous versions. One of the industry's smallest, enterprise-ready desktops, the new HP dc7800 Ultra-slim Desktop PC is 46 percent smaller than previous models, delivering maximum energy-efficiency with a standard, 85 percent efficient power supply without compromising performance.
Another feature that helps reduce power usage across the HP business desktop line are optional 80 PLUS® power supplies, which are up to 15 percent more efficient than standard power supplies.(4) Annually, 1,000 PCs with 80 PLUS power supplies can save the equivalent in carbon dioxide emissions generated by the burning of more than 4,500 gallons of gasoline.(5)
Additionally, the Verdiem SURVEYOR™ remote power management software agent(6) comes preloaded on all dc7800 series PCs. When activated, SURVEYOR can help measure, manage and reduce power consumption on PCs and monitors by up to 33 percent, or about 200 kilowatt-hours per PC annually.
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