More than 1.7 billion pounds of electronic products recovered cumulatively , global reuse and recycling vendor audits completed PALO ALTO, Calif, HP issued its annual Global Citizenship Report, which describes the company's policies, programs, performance and goals for fiscal year 2008.
Among the focus areas detailed in the report are environmental sustainability, ethics and compliance, human rights and labor practices, privacy and social investment, In 2008, HP extended its global citizenship leadership with industry first in supply chain transparency and environmental sustainability.
Major global citizenship accomplishment in 2008 include:
HP was the first IT company to release the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its products manufaturing by publishing the emissions attributed to its first tier suppiers.
Hp qualified for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency 's (EPA) Smaty Way logo labeling program to reduce fuel consumption , greenhouse gas and other air emissions of surface transportation carriers.
Hp inroduced the HP Deskjet D2545 Printer, the company's first printer made almost entirely from recycled plastic material.
HP won Walmart's environmetal design challenge by teplacing a