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Greener Computing

PALO ALTO, Calif. — 2008 was a busy year for Hewlett Packard’s green efforts: in addition to reducing its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent over 2007 figures (that’s in absolute terms; relative to revenue HP cut emissions by 13 percent in 2008), the company made big strides in e-waste recycling, green design of IT products, and supply chain emissions reporting.

The report, which is online at www.hp.com/go/report, breaks down the company’s CSR investments into six categories: global citizenship, ethics & compliance, human rights & labor, environmental sustainability, privacy, and social investment.

On the environmental front, one significant achievement was the collection of 34,000 tons of electronic equipment for reuse, and the recycling of another 120,000 tons of electronics that would have otherwise gone to landfill. Those numbers bring HP up to 1.7 billion pounds (850,000 tons) of total electronics recycled. In 2004, HP set a goal of recycling 1 billion pounds of e-waste by the end of 2007, and the company beat that goal by 6 months, hitting the 1 billion pound mark in July 2007.

Great news, that HP and the other vendors continue to innovate in how they provision, support and recycle their systems is to be rewarded. We must as an industry and an end user community continue towards a sustainable and energy/environmentally efficient computing solution.

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