Environmental sustainability
First complete carbon footprint
During 2012 we completed a comprehensive carbon footprint analysis to better understand the impact of our company and our products. HP is among the first companies globally to publish this level of information.
Environmental sustainability
The HP Moonshot system
In April 2013, we brought to market the first commercialized product and the second generation of our HP Moonshot servers. This entirely new category of software defined server architecture consumes up to 89% less energy, uses 80% less space, and costs 77% less than a traditional server environment. *
*According to internal HP engineering that compares HP Moonshot servers with traditional x86 server technology.
Environmental sustainability
7,000+ U.S. take-back locations for HP print cartridges to
During the last year, we increased the number of U.S. take-back locations for HP print cartridges to more than 7,000 through partnerships with Walmart, OfficeMax, and Staples—and Office Depot in early 2013.
Environmental sustainability
New recycling facility in Brazil
Our new recycling facility in São Paulo reduces HP ink cartridges to raw materials which can be used to make new metal and plastic products. The recycled plastic is used in new printer parts manufactured in Brazil as well as new HP ink cartridges.
Environmental sustainability
"New Water" use at HP Singapore facilities
Since 2007, HP’s facilities in Singapore have been using “New Water” to reduce demand on freshwater. New Water is treated wastewater purified using microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet treatment, as well as conventional treatment processes. New Water accounts for over two-thirds of the facilities’ annual water consumption.
Environmental sustainability
HP plastic treatment facility
HP partnered with the Canada-based Lavergne Group to support a new HP plastic treatment facility in Vietnam, expanding the “closed loop” HP ink cartridge recycling program.
Environmental sustainability
East African Computer Recycling facility
HP collaborated with the NGO Camara to support the East African Computer Recycling (EACR) facility in Mombasa, Kenya, which processes end-of-life electronics equipment while creating employment in disadvantaged communities.
Environmental sustainability
Fort Collins data center
HP opened a data center in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, that doubles as a test bed for HP Labs technologies, including sustainable data center innovations. The facility expands on HP’s Converged Infrastructure solutions with research focused on working to eliminate IT sprawl, increasing energy efficiency, and reducing power consumption.
Environmental sustainability
Sustainable building design
HP consolidated five of its office buildings into one in Ojima, Japan. The new facility employs sustainable design features such as increased use of natural ventilation and lighting, wastewater and rain water recycling, water-efficient landscaping, and recycled and locally sourced building materials.
Environmental sustainability
Hockley Data Center LEED certification
In 2011, three HP facilities were certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED®, including our Hockley data center in Texas, United States, and our Finnish headquarters at Espoo, both of which achieved Gold-level certification. This brings the total number of HP LEED certified facilities to four.
Supply chain responsibility
Supplier guidance on appropriate use of student and dispatch workers
In early 2013 we introduced the “HP Student and Dispatch Worker Guidance Standard for Supplier Facilities in the People’s Republic of China.” This document directs suppliers on how to properly manage student and temporary agency workers in that country, and is part of a broader program that includes capability-building and assurance mechanisms to improve conformance.
Supply chain responsibility
Journey towards conflict-free sourcing
HP is the first IT company to publish its supply chain smelter list and to have the smelter identification process independently reviewed. We are encouraging the responsible sourcing of minerals mined in the DRC and used in HP products.
Supply chain responsibility
First IT company to publish its supply chain water footprint
HP is the first IT company to publish our supply chain water footprint. Based on data primarily from component manufacturing and final assembly suppliers representing 38% of our total production supplier spend, aggregated water consumption equaled 28 million cubic meters in 2011.*
*Consumption is estimated based on suppliers’ consumption and their dollar volume of HP business compared with their total revenue. The majority of these companies report on a calendar year basis. The year 2011 is the most recent for which data are available.
Supply chain responsibility
Improving labor conditions in the Pearl River Delta
In 2011, the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) introduced a sustainability plan for 100 electronics manufacturers located in China’s Pearl River Delta region. The primary goal of the plan is to improve factory working conditions. HP is helping to develop the plan and encouraging suppliers to engage in IDH assessments.
Supply chain responsibility
Supporting migrant worker rights in Malaysia
To raise awareness among its suppliers of the issue of alleged mistreatment of migrant workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry, HP held a training program in August 2011 regarding the guidelines for employing migrant workers.
Supply chain responsibility
The HERproject
HP participates in the HERProject to raise awareness of the general and reproductive health needs of women working in manufacturing.
Environmental sustainability
GreenScreen assessments
HP has integrated the GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals framework developed by Clean Production Action into our overall alternatives assessment protocol, enabling us to more easily select replacement materials with a reduced risk of human health and environmental impacts. We have completed more than 130 assessments since the program began.
Environmental sustainability
Closed-loop recycling
HP is developing “closed loop” recycling processes for some of our hardware products. This effort involves recovering plastic from electronics products at HP’s North American recycling facilities, and recompounding the plastic to return it to virgin resin properties and colors for use in creating new electronics products.
Environmental sustainability
Sustainable packaging
HP’s support helped Sealed Air, a major supplier of recycled PE foam used in cushions for HP packaging, to expand its “closed loop” recycling process globally and create Ethafoam® MRC, which is made with 100% recycled resin content.
Environmental sustainability
Forest Stewardship Council membership
HP became a member of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®)—widely regarded as the leading independent standards organization for responsible forestry. We are helping to shape the council’s policies and criteria, and we strongly encourage our paper suppliers to pursue FSC certification.
Social innovation
HP LIFE
HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) is a global training program that helps students, entrepreneurs, and small business owners develop the skills to build successful companies and create jobs. In India, for example, Neha Gupta took classes with HP LIFE to help her start a jewelry business.
Social innovation
HP Catalyst Summit
More than 100 educational leaders from 15 countries participated in the first HP Catalyst Summit in New Delhi, India. The event, sponsored by HP and organized by the International Society for Technology in Education, addressed global challenges related to STEM education.
Social innovation
HP legal pro bono work
Members of HP’s legal team in Germany visit schools to teach students how to protect themselves online. They share expertise on issues including illegal downloads, privacy, and cyberbullying. Since the program launched in 2010, HP legal staff have led more than 40 training sessions and reached more than 300 students.
Social innovation
Accelerating Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV
HP and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) are working with the Kenyan government to reduce the amount of time it takes to diagnose an HIV-positive infant. The Early Infant Diagnosis project automates the HIV testing process, significantly speeding up test-results reporting and helping to save lives.
Supply chain responsibility
Hepatitis B anti-discrimination program
HP considers hepatitis B tests in employee hiring processes to be violations of the nondiscrimination provision of HP’s EICC Code of Conduct. We have held training programs in China to raise awareness of hepatitis B and eliminate discrimination. In 2011, we expanded the program, reaching approximately 50,000 more workers.
Supply chain responsibility
Pre-departure training
HP implemented pre-departure training for suppliers and schools to teach facility and school trainers how to prepare interns for work, including knowledge of labor rights and occupational health, and how to adapt to city life. In sessions held in three areas across China, reached more than 23,400 graduates and interns.
Ethics and human rights
Conflict minerals in the DRC
HP plays a leading role in international efforts to achieve practical solutions to the issue of conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2011, HP and its partners made significant progress on several fronts, including conducting due diligence of HP’s supply chain and supporting the development of an industry due diligence approach.
Ethics and human rights
Solutions for Hope
HP announced its participation in Solutions for Hope, a project led by major capacitor manufacturer AVX Corporation Solutions for Hope, has achieved the first validated source of conflict-free tantalum ore from the Democratic Republic of Congo. HP intends to incorporate AVX’s conflict-free tantalum capacitors in HP products when the capacitors become available.
Privacy
Served as a Trusted Advisor to the European Commission and data protection regulators
In 2012, HP provided a detailed response to the EU’s public consultation on proposed data protection regulation and consulted with key stakeholders. We emphasized the need to develop law that promotes innovation, protects consumer rights, streamlines data protection rules, and builds trust in the cloud.
Privacy
APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules
HP remains actively involved in implementing the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border Privacy Rules system to reduce barriers to information flows, enhance consumer privacy, and promote interoperability across regional data privacy regimes.
Privacy
Colombian privacy law
HP has been working with the Ministry of Commerce and business groups in Colombia to contribute to the country’s base privacy law, and regulations and provide industry comments. When implemented, this will be the first of a “new generation” of laws that integrate traditional concepts of privacy with innovative new approaches.
Ethics and human rights
HP global sales force ethics training
We require all public sector sales employees globally to complete additional periodic, job-specific ethics training.
Environmental sustainability
Energy-efficient Kyoto Wheel heat exchanger at Streetsville data center
HP’s new Streetsville data center in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, will be HP’s first data center to use a “Kyoto Wheel” heat exchanger for its primary cooling. The technology reduces the need for mechanical cooling by transferring heat to the outside air stream through a heat wheel heat exchanger.
Ethics and human rights
Support for free trade agreements
In 2011, the United States Congress passed free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. HP executives and employees supported these FTAs by writing more than 1,000 letters to members of Congress and composing opinion editorial pieces that were featured in local publications in Washington, D.C.
Environmental sustainability
Renewable energy at HP facilities
HP is committed to maintaining renewables as a part of our energy mix to make continued progress in emissions reductions. We estimate that nearly 500 solar panels installed at HP’s facilities in Bad Homburg and Böblingen, Germany, will generate approximately 190,000 kWh of electricity per year.
Environmental sustainability
HP supports international action to address climate change
Because we believe that energy-efficient HP technology can be a catalyst in meeting the challenge of climate change, we again participated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference. For the second consecutive year, HP was selected as the primary provider of low-carbon IT solutions for the conference.
Environmental sustainability
The 2°C Challenge Communiqué
HP is an official signatory of The 2°C Challenge Communiqué, a statement from more than 400 international businesses that calls on governments to take action at a national level to ensure a successful transition to green growth and a climate-resilient economy.
Environmental sustainability
Expanding the Energy Efficiency Partnership program in China
As a charter member of the BSR Energy Efficiency Partnership program in China, HP helps suppliers reduce energy use and lower costs. Through June 2011, participating HP suppliers reported that they saved a total of 6 million kWh.
Environmental sustainability
Optimizing product transport networks
HP began manufacturing some desktop PCs and monitors bound for the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa in Corlu, Turkey, instead of in the Czech Republic. This shift converted shipments from air to ocean, reducing costs and decreasing fuel-related GHG emissions by more than 30%.[1]
[1]Calculation based on GHG Protocol weight/distance method.
Environmental sustainability
Warehouse consolidation to optimize transport networks
HP consolidated three West Coast warehouses into one—reducing total square footage, improving operational and energy efficiencies, and increasing outbound freight consolidation. With inbound freight now shipped to a single port and consolidated for distribution, we were able to decrease average transport distance per shipment by approximately 200 road miles.
Environmental sustainability
SmartWay transportation network
In the USA and Canada, all HP consumer products are shipped using a network composed entirely of surface transportation carriers certified by SmartWay, a collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the freight transportation industry that aims to reduce fuel consumption and GHG and other air emissions.
Environmental sustainability
Helping customers achieve energy certifications
As of April 2012, HP Critical Facilities Services had designed more than 60% of all LEED® certified data centers. We’ve also helped customers achieve such key energy certifications as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Standard for Data Centers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR® for Data Centers, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Save Energy Now.
Privacy
Helping protect data privacy in Europe
HP is one of only a few U.S.-based, multinational companies that have been granted Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) certification by European data protection authorities for having programs in place that uphold the European Directive for privacy when transferring data between countries.
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