It’s cool working for a company that constantly surprises you in a good way. Yesterday, HP made some serious announcements around its HP Eco Solutions program, and I thought they were worth sharing on The Next Bench. Even though I know that HP’s been focused on environmental sustainability for more than 50 years, I was truly blown away by the commitment shown in yesterday’s announcement. Check this out.
- HP has set a new goal to save 1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity by 2011 through a variety of product design strategies. With the amount of energy HP expects it PCs to save, 90,000 homes could be powered for an entire year.
- HP has launched the HP Eco Solutions printing practice to help large organizations save money through lower paper and energy usage.
- HP plans to improve the energy efficiency of its printing products by 40 percent by 2011 and is on track to meet this goal with 32 percent efficiency to date.
- HP has doubled the number of superior energy efficient HP ProLiant G6 server platforms to 22. If all legacy rack and blade servers sold worldwide in 2005 were replaced with ProLiant G6 servers, customers would save $2.5 billion in energy costs. HP is also the first and ONLY vendor to have Energy Star qualified servers.
- By 2011, HP expects to use a total of 100 million pounds of recycled plastic in its printing products (cumulative from 2007). To provide perspective, this is the equivalent of diverting 4 billion plastic water bottles from going to landfill.
- HP has already exceeded its 2008 goal to triple the amount of recycled content in its inkjet printer products and double the amount of recycled content used in its inkjet cartridges.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a ton of work being done to make HP’s consumer products Energy Star compliant—and a huge percentage of them already are—and a focus on transforming processes to positively impact the environment.
Perhaps my favorite part of today’s announcement is this: HP is committed to providing all of its customers not only a return on investment through financial savings, but a “return on environment” through energy, carbon and waste savings.
That’s something I’ll give a big green thumb up to.
Cheers, Tony aka Frosty
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