To be exemplary global citizens, we strive for leadership by addressing the areas most critical to our stakeholders and our stakeholders and our business. We place particular emphasis on our three priorities: climate and energy, product reuse and recycling, and supply chain responsibility, these issues have strategic importance to our business, stakeholder concerns and our ability to make a positive impact.

2010 Environmental Goals

• Materials: Remove all mercury from HP's entire notebook line by the end of 2010.

  Progress: Achieved

• Product recycling¹: Recycle two billion pounds (900,000 tonnes) of electronic products and supplies by the end of 2010 (since 1987).

  Progress: A total of 1.95 billion pounds (884,000 tonnes) of electronic products and supplies has been recycled (short of the goal by 50 million pounds or approximately 10 weeks at the current annual recycling rate of 266 million pounds). In total, more than 2.36 billion pounds (1.07 million tonnes) of electronic products and supplies have been recovered and either reused (electronic products) or recycled (electronic products and supplies) by HP since 1987.

• Product reuse: Reuse 450 million pounds (200,000 tonnes) of electronic products by the end of 2010 (since 2003).

  Progress: A total of 410 million pounds (186,000 tonnes) has been reused (short of goal by 40 million pounds or approximately 32 weeks at current annual reuse rate of 66 million pounds).

• Operations²: Reduce water consumption by 5%, compared with 2007.

  Progress: We reassessed our original water goal, to reduce water use by 5% from 2007 levels by 2010, and determined that it is not appropriate following the integration of 465 former EDS sites in 2009. See HP Operations – Water for more detail.

  Continue to divert at least 87% of solid (nonhazardous) waste from landfill globally through the end of 2010.

  Progress: Achieved a diversion rate of 84.3%.

2011 Environmental Goals

• Product use: HP will reduce the energy consumption of HP products³ and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 40% below 2005 levels by the end of 2011. This replaces the 2010 goal to reduce combined energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of HP operations and products to 25% below 2005 levels by 2010, which HP has already met.

  Progress: Achieved nine months ahead of schedule and exceeded by 10 percentage points.

  Representative product categories have their own goals, including the following goals for HP's high-volume printer, and desktop and notebook PC families:

  • By 2011, HP will improve the overall energy efficiency of HP ink and laser printing products by 40 percent, relative to 2005.⁴

    Progress: HP exceeded this goal and improved the energy efficiency of HP ink and laser printing products by 46%, relative to 2005.

  • By 2011, HP will save customers 1 billion kWh of electricity through a variety of product design strategies in HP's high-volume HP desktop and notebook PC families, relative to 2008.⁵

    Progress: HP exceeded this goal and saved customers 1.4 billion kWh through 2010.

• Recycled plastic: Use a total of 100 million pounds, cumulatively from 2007, of recycled plastic in HP printing products.

• RoHS: Apply the European Union (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) 2 substance and exemption requirements voluntarily outside the EU (and European Free Trade Association) on a worldwide basis within six months of each of the EU's various legal compliance dates for virtually all HP branded products in the scope of EU RoHS 2, except where it is widely recognized that there is no technically feasible alternative (as indicated by an exemption under the EU RoHS Directive).

  Progress: Achieved for 2010.

• Packaging:

  For inkjet supplies:

  • Achieve 35% minimum recycled content for corrugate, globally.

  • Achieve 80% minimum recycled content for paperboard, globally.

  For desktop and notebook PC products:

  • Reduce the ratio of total packaging weight to total packaged product weight to 28%.

  • Achieve 35% minimum recycled content for corrugate, globally.

• 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.

  Progress: We are on track to meet this target. In 2010, 14% of the HP-branded paper we used or sold achieved these criteria—more than five times the amount in 2008.

• Materials: 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.⁶

  Progress: HP is on track to achieve 90% of its goal to phase out BFR and PVC in newly introduced personal computing products in 2011, subject to ready availability of technologically feasible alternatives for all components. At the end of 2010, 100% of all new notebook products and many other newly introduced personal computing products are BFR- and PVC-free. HP intends to complete our goal to phase out BFR and PVC where technically feasible in the few remaining new desktop and monitor PC products as market demand and customer expectations permit.

2012 Environmental Goals

• Materials: Complete the phase-out of bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) in newly introduced personal computing products by the end of 2012.

  Progress: Due to the complexity of our supply chain, we will not be able to reach our original goal to phase out these substances from all HP products by the end of 2012. HP believes we will be able to complete the phase-out of these substances in newly introduced personal computing products by the end of 2012. We have updated the goal accordingly.

• Renewable energy: Double voluntary purchases of renewable energy to 8% of electricity use (in addition to the renewable energy available by default in the power grid).

2013 Environmental Goals

• Operations: Reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from HP-owned and HP-leased facilities by 20% relative to 2005 levels by the end of 2013 on an absolute basis.

• Product transport: Implement network enhancements, mode changes, and route optimization that decrease greenhouse gas emissions from product transport by 180,000 tonnes of CO2e, since 2008.

  Progress: Through 2010, we have achieved reductions through various projects of 110,000 tonnes of CO2e, since 2008.

  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.

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