HP Accelerates Drive to Reduce Ocean Plastics with Expanded Planet Partners Program
October 21 2020 - 8:01AM
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today announced the expansion of its Planet
Partners supplies return and recycling program to 68 countries,
including Argentina, Chile, and Papua New Guinea. Expanding HP’s
OEM printing supplies recycling program into new markets furthers
the company’s long-standing commitment to driving a circular and
low carbon economy with its partners and customers.
The HP Planet Partners program makes sustainable
choices easier for HP customers, enabling them to take simple steps
towards achieving their own goals to reduce waste. To date, the
program has recycled over 875 million HP ink and toner cartridges.2
Buying and recycling Original HP ink and toner cartridges,
customers and partners take action in HP’s closed loop process and
contribute to the company’s efforts to create a sustainable future
for printing that is forest positive, carbon neutral and supports a
circular economy.
“Like many global challenges of this year, the
climate crisis reveals how interconnected we are,” said Guillaume
Gerardin, global head and general manager of print supplies for HP.
“Our goal is to enable and mobilize our partners and customers to
join us in driving meaningful change and a more circular economy.
That’s why we are committed to developing best-in-class initiatives
like our HP Planet Partners program to reduce waste going into
landfills and the opening of a new washline in Haiti to help reduce
ocean-bound plastic.”
“The HP Planet Partners program is the
best-in-class OEM printing supplies recycling program1,” said
Rebecca Schiffenhaus of Keypoint Intelligence. “HP is leading the
way in helping keep plastic out of nature. The HP Planet Partners
program continues to demonstrate sustainable impact by scaling
across geographies, making it easy to return cartridges and
including recycled content in new cartridges.”
To further this goal, the company has pledged to
grow HP Amplify Impact – a first-of-its-kind program that will
mobilize our channel ecosystem to help advance sustainability,
build diverse and inclusive workforces, and unlock the full
potential of communities – to include 50 percent of its Amplify
partners by 2025.
Reducing Ocean-Bound Plastics
HP invested $2 million in a new plastic washing
line in Haiti that produces clean, high-quality recycled plastic
for use in HP premium products, including Original HP ink
cartridges and the company’s most sustainable PC portfolio and also
opens up new markets for the Haiti team. This investment into a
self-reliant ocean-bound plastic supply chain continues HP’s
longstanding commitment to diverting ocean-bound plastic and
contributing to a lower-carbon, circular economy while providing
income and education opportunities locally. As of today, the
washing line is fully functioning, thanks to the local Haiti
engineering team and HP partner, STG Group of Germany.
HP Planet Partners recycling process also relies in
part on ocean-bound plastics sourced and recovered in Haiti. HP has
been reducing ocean-bound plastic in Haiti since 2016, and these
efforts have already diverted approximately 1.7 million pounds (771
metric tons) of plastic materials—or more than 60 million bottles—
preventing this plastic from reaching waterways and oceans. Of
that, more than 485,000 pounds (220 metric tons) have been diverted
from oceans to be used in Original HP ink cartridges.
In October 2018, HP joined NextWave Plastics,
the collaborative and open-source initiative convening leading
technology and consumer-focused companies to develop the first
global network of ocean-bound plastics supply chains. The
coalition has set a goal of diverting a minimum of 25,000
tons of plastics – the equivalent of 1.2 billion single-use plastic
water bottles – from entering the ocean by the end of 2025.
“HP is working to set the industry standard for
sustainability practices, and as a member of NextWave Plastics, is
ensuring that the lessons they have learned are shared among other
industry leaders to make an even greater impact,” says Dune Ives,
CEO of Lonely Whale, the convening entity of NextWave.
“HP’s creativity and commitment to their work in Haiti in the face
of a global pandemic is making waves of positive change that
simultaneously benefit local communities, the ocean and our
future.”
As part of the company’s commitment to sustainable
impact, HP has also teamed up with NGO Work to create more than
1,100 new income opportunities and provide new learning centers for
children on site as their parents work on the recycling efforts.
The learning centers are equipped with the latest technology,
including laptops and printers using cartridges from locally
collected plastics.
Participating is Easier than
Ever
To learn more about HP Planet Partners, and how to
participate, visit HP’s new, mobile-friendly supplies recycling
website at www.hp.com/hprecycle. With improved customer navigation,
the user-friendly design makes recycling possible from nearly
anywhere, and allows fewer clicks to get customers where they want
to go fast. HP’s new supplies recycling website will first be
available in North America and parts of Europe, Middle East and
Africa with expansion into APJ and LATAM by the end of the year.3
The expansion of the supplies recycling program in Chile and
Argentina will roll out in early 2021.
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1 Compared to majority of competing in-class OEM ink & laser
printer supply recycling programs. Criteria: size, reach, recycled
content use, upcycling & eco award/ranking. HP-commissioned Aug
2020 InfoTrends research report. Market share: IDC Q2’20 Hardcopy
Peripheral Tracker. Program availability varies. See
hp.com/go/recycle & keypointintelligence.com/HPPlanetPartners2
For further details, please see HP’s sustainable impact report:
https://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c06601778.pdf3 Program
availability varies. For details, see www.hp.com/recycle.
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