2010 Environmental Goals

• HP will reduce the combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions of HP operations and products by 25 percent below 2005 levels¹ by achieving the following:
  • Operations: HP will reduce energy consumption and the resulting GHG emissions from HP-owned and HP-leased facilities worldwide to 16 percent below 2005 levels²
    Progress: Between 2005 and 2008, HP has reduced the energy used in its operations by over 9% towards the previous goal of 16% by 2010. In September 2009, a new goal was created to reduce the GHG emissions from HP-owned and HP-leased facilities 20% below 2005 levels by 2013 on an absolute basis. HP has set an interim target to reduce the energy consumption in our facilities by 7% (the remaining percentage in this goal) below 2008 levels by the end of 2010.
  • Products: HP will reduce the energy consumption of HP products³ and associated GHG emissions through specific goals for representative product categories, including the following goals for some of HP's highest-volume PCs, printers and servers families:
    • Improve energy efficiency for high-volume server families by 50 percent, relative to 2005⁴
    • Reduce the energy consumption of volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent, relative to 2005⁵
    
    Progress: HP exceeded this goal a full year and a half ahead of schedule. Overall, HP has reduced the energy consumption of its highest volume desktop and notebook PCs by 41 percent since 2005. A new goal has been set to save 1 billion kWh of electricity by 2011 through a variety of product design strategies.
  
  Progress: In September 2009, HP met its goal of reducing combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of HP operations and products to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2010, over a year early. Our new goal is to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all our products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.
  
  
• Recycle 2 billion pounds (900,000 tonnes) of electronic products and supplies by the end of 2010 (since 1987)
• Reuse 450 million pounds (200,000 tonnes) of electronic products by the end of 2010
  (since 2003)
  Progress: 1,435 million pounds (650,000 tonnes) have been recycled and more than 275 million pounds (125,000 tonnes) have been reused. In total, more than 1.71 billion pounds have been recovered.
• Reduce water consumption by 5 percent, compared with 2007
• Remove all mercury - a material commonly found in notebook screens - from its entire notebook line by the end of 2010

• HP's new goal, set in September 2009, is to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all our products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.
• Recycled plastic: Use a total of 100 million pounds, cumulatively from 2007, of recycled plastic in HP printing products.
• HP will improve the overall energy efficiency of HP ink and laser printing products by 40%⁶, relative to 2005.
• Energy consumption: New goals set in 2009 to save 1 billion kilowatt-hours through design strategies of volume desktop and notebook PC families.
• For Imaging and Printing Group products, reduce the average weight of printer packaging per product by 35 percent (relative to 2005)⁷, use at least 35 percent recycled paper paper in cardboard packaging for printers and reduce the amount of plastic used in printer packaging by 50 percent, relative to 2005.
• Paper: 40 percent or more of HP-branded paper sold will be Forest Stewardship Council-certified or have more than 30 percent post-consumer waste content by the end of 2011.
• As technologically feasible alternatives become readily available that will not compromise product performance or quality and will not adversely impact health or the environment, we will complete the phase out of BFR and PVC in newly introduced personal computing products.

• HP will reduce GHG emissions from HP-owned and HP-leased facilities 20 percent under 2005 levels by 2013 on an absolute basis. This goal is independent of organic business growth and will be accomplished by reducing the worldwide energy footprint of HP facilities and data centers.

Our goals help us to provide products and services that are safe and environmentally sound throughout their lifecycles, conduct our operations in an environmentally responsible manner, and create health and safety practices and work environments that enable HP employees to work injury-free.

To accomplish this, we will:

• meet or exceed all applicable legal requirements;
• proactively reduce occupational injury and illness risks, and promote employee health and well-being;
• aggressively pursue pollution prevention, energy conservation and waste reduction in our operations;
• design and manufacture our products to be safe to use and to minimize their environmental impact;
• offer our customers environmentally responsible end-of-life management services for HP products; and
• require our suppliers to conduct their operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.

We achieve this high level of performance by integrating these objectives into our business planning, decision-making, performance tracking and review processes to ensure we achieve our goals and continually improve upon them.

HP Global Public Policies

Read HP's global public policies, including global issue briefs on climate change, electronics recycling and energy efficiency.

Policy on Export of Electronic Waste to Developing Countries

HP does not allow e-waste to be exported from developed countries (Organisation for Economic
Co-Operation and Development and European Union) to developing countries (non-OECD countries outside the EU).

HP defines e-waste as non-working parts or devices.

E-waste does not include:

• Materials defined as non-hazardous under the Basel Convention;
• Working equipment and parts that are not intended for disposal or recycling, but for donation, reuse or resale;
• Components being returned to the original equipment manufacturer that are under warranty;
• Materials to be used in manufacturing that do not require further processing or preparation.