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HP bolsters environmental efforts
HP Canada announced new services in May, to help customers manage the environmental impact of their imaging and printing activities.
The new portfolio includes:
• an enterprise printing assessment service and carbon calculator to address energy and paper use, related carbon emissions, and projected cost savings for optimized environments;
• a global paper policy governing the sustainable manufacture and use of paper HP sells to customers and uses for packaging, collateral and its own office printing;
• a new HP inkjet printer made almost entirely from recycled materials;
• an HP Eco Highlights label to help customers identify environmental attributes of a given HP product or service.
"Over the past nine months we’ve helped several Fortune 500 customers
realize up to a 30 per cent reduction in their carbon footprint related to imaging and printing," said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of the imaging and printing group with HP.
HP has also pledged to improve overall energy efficiency of its ink and laser printing products by 40 per cent by 2011, and increase the amount of recycled materials used in its inkjet printers by three times by 2010 (relative to 2007).
Other plans include a goal to quadruple the number of HP Halo Collaboration Studios at company sites worldwide by 2009, resulting in an expected reduction of more than 20,000 trips and millions of dollars saved in travel annually; and, surpass 250 million cumulative HP inkjet and laserjet cartridges recycled in 2008, helping the company reach its goal of recovering two billion pounds of computing and printing equipment by 2010, HP reports.
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