HP Announces Ambitious Sustainability Goals

Print and technology giant HP has announced it will be increasing its sustainability goals over the next five years.

Having focused on sustainable efforts for a long time already, HP announced that it has already made the commitment in 2018 to use 100% renewable energy supply in the US – but it isn’t prepared to stop there.

George Brasher, UK and Ireland managing director at HP said, “If you look at the environment, you are starting to see the impact of climate change and global warming.

“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. It’s not just words, it has to be actions and doing that backs that up.”

HP publishes an annual sustainability report every year, with its most recent report showing that it has kept 875 million print cartridges out of landfill since introducing a recycling scheme in 1991.

The report includes HP’s future targets, including the reduction by 85% of single-use plastic packaging by 2025 and the reduction of the company’s carbon footprint by 30% by the same date.

“If you go back to the previous century, businesses saw sustainability as a ‘nice to have’, typically an extra bullet point at the end of a business plan. What we have seen is that company leaders have determined that it is not only a moral imperative, but a business imperative,” concludes Brasher.