HP surpasses its Environmental Goals and sets tougher targets for 2011

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. HP has now set itself a new goal  – to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all our products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.

The Goals:

• 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%, 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), use at least 35 percent recycled paper in cardboard packaging for printers and reduce the amount of plastic used in printer packaging by 50 percent, relative to 2005.
• 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.