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Electronic waste, or E-waste, is a growing environmental concern. By designing products that can be easily upgraded to extend their useful lives and designing more recyclable products, HP reduces e-waste and its environmental impacts.
Most of HP's products have a modular design that allows various components to be removed, upgraded or replaced which extends the useful life of the product. Servers, processors, memory, network connectivity, power supplies, and mass storage devices are upgradeable.
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| HP products are designed to be recycled. Recycling design features include: |
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Modular design to allow components to be removed, upgraded or replaced |
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Eliminating glues and adhesives, for example, by using snap-in features |
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Marking plastic parts weighing more than 25g according to ISO 11469 international standards, to speed up materials identification during recycling |
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Reducing the number and types of materials used |
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Using single plastic polymers |
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Using moulded-in colours and finishes instead of paint, coatings or plating |
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Relying on modular designs for ease of disassembly of dissimilar recyclable materials |
HP’s DfR standards include clear design guidelines and checklists that can be used to assess a product’s recyclability. This allows HP to develop more easily recyclable products.
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HP has long been a leader in e-waste recycling. HP's Planet Partners programs offers return and recycling programs for LaserJet printer supplies, Inkjet printer supplies and all manufacturer's computer hardware in many countries around the world.
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