Manila, Philippines -- HP leads the industry with the most comprehensive environmental programs that reduce the environmental impact of its printing supplies throughout the lifecycle from design to manufacturing, use and end-of-life treatment. These programs can help customers to reduce their environmental footprint. The key HP environmental highlights and programs already in place in this region include:

• Comprehensive take-back program in APJ: over 200,000 customer touch points in 11 countries and territories which includes 10,000 Enterprise & Public Sector users, 200,000 SMB users and 20,000 consumer collection points.
• Innovative Closed-loop recycling process: an engineering breakthrough that uses between 70% to 100% recycled plastics – from everyday plastic bottles to highly technical HP inkjet cartridges – to create new HP inkjet print cartridges.
• Approximately 1.68 million kilograms pounds reduction in packaging materials in APJ: redesigned LaserJet print cartridge packaging uses 40% to 45% less packaging material by weight.
• Energy Savings – HP’s New enhanced “low melt” monochrome toner and Spherical Monochrome Toner: enable high quality, while enabling consumers to achieve a 10% to 15% improvement in their print system energy consumption per page.

Designing For The Environment

HP delivers more of what consumers and businesses want—environmentally sound printing supplies with uncompromised print quality, reliable performance, and value. HP Original Supplies are designed with the environment in mind. To this end, HP has invested heavily in research, product development and materials innovation to drive advances in resource reuse and conservation.

• Industry’s First “Closed Loop” Recycling Process
o HP has developed an unprecedented, closed loop plastic recycling system that incorporates post-consumer recycled plastics into the manufacture of new Original HP inkjet print cartridges. The closed loop plastic recycling system incorporates post-consumer recycled plastics – like water bottles and ink cartridges – into the manufacturing of new Original HP inkjet print cartridges. To date, over 760 million cartridges have been manufactured using this process.

• Redesigned Packaging for LaserJet Cartridges
o HP’s new LaserJet toner cartridge packaging uses 40% to 45% less packaging material by weight. The smaller boxes can be shipped 30% more efficiently – a standard shipping pallet now holds 203 cartridges instead of the previous 144 cartridges. In addition, retailers will also realize more than 30% savings in shelf space from the new packaging.
o In Asia Pacific, HP’s redesigned toner cartridge packaging would have reduced greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide) emissions by an estimated 1.6 million kilograms in 2007.