HP is stepping up its work on its products’ environmental sustainability
George Brasher, UK and Ireland managing director at HP, said that although the current situation was difficult, the planet was at a critical point.
“If you look at the environment, you are starting to see the impact of climate change and global warming”, he said, adding that the Black Lives Matter movement had also shown a spotlight on the ongoing inequalities in society and that the pandemic had underlined that certain groups had been the hardest hit by the virus. “Faced with these challenges, what we believe as HP is that we have to go back to our core principles to figure out how we go forward.”
The firm publishes its sustainability report every June. So far, HP has recycled more than 4.69 billion plastic bottles and removed 1,000 tonnes of packaging that was difficult to recycle. It has also kept 875 million printer cartridges out of landfill since it started working with partners in 1991 on its recycling scheme.
