HP Innovation Journal Issue 09: Spring 2018 | Page 45

Sustainability
Our partnership with Walmart is a case in point. Like
HP, Walmart believes a commitment to sustainability can
deliver significant and lasting environmental and social
benefits, while improving the operation of its business.
In 2017, Walmart announced an ambitious supply chain
initiative, called Project Gigaton. Through this initiative,
Walmart is working with suppliers, like HP, to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by one billion metric tons from
the production and use of the products it sells between
2015 and 2030. To put that into perspective, that’s the
equivalent of taking more than 211 million passenger vehi-
cles off the road for one year.
HP is supporting Project Gigaton through GHG
emissions reduction goals we set in three areas:
• Products: Reduce the GHG emissions intensity of our
product portfolio by 25 percent by 2020, compared
1
to 2010
• Deforestation: Achieve zero deforestation associated
with HP brand paper and paper-based product pack-
2
aging by 2020
• Emissions: Reduce the GHG emissions from our global
operations by 25 percent by 2025, compared to 2015
As a leader in sustainability, we will also support
Walmart’s efforts by sharing best practices, case studies,
and other information that we believe could help other
companies as they set their emissions goals and work
toward them.
HP and its partners believe that sustainability is an
innovation that drives brand loyalty, increases employee
engagement, and delivers long-term business success.
Working together—and with other businesses and orga-
nizations across multiple industries—we are helping build
a future where sustainability is part of the very fabric
of business.
1. HP product GHG emissions intensity measures GHG emissions during product
lifetime use per unit for personal systems and per printed page for printers based on
anticipated lifetime usage. These values are then weighted by contribution of personal
systems and printing products to overall revenue in the current year. These emissions
represent more than 99% of HP product units shipped each year, including notebooks,
tablets, desktops, mobile computing devices, and workstations; and HP inkjet, LaserJet,
DesignJet, Indigo, and Scitex printers, and scanners.  2. Packaging is the box that comes
with the product and all paper (including packaging and materials) inside the box.
Secure and responsible
recycling
HP is committed to designing environ-
mentally-responsible products that
deliver data security to our customers.
And that commitment doesn’t stop
once a product reaches end of use.

Whether returning products for
reuse or recycling, we have estab-
lished data destruction and recy-
cling services that ensure sensitive
information is handled properly. For
example, all data left on storage de-
vices is irrevocably destroyed during
recycling. And the recycling process
itself complies with governmental
standards and all applicable environ-
mental regulations.

For enterprise customers, we
can create customized solutions that
ensure data is destroyed and units
are recycled or reused in a way that
meets even the most stringent indus-
try and government requirements.
We offer a certificate of destruction
on request that guarantees we have
properly destroyed the products and
that the data cannot be accessed.
Specialized reports can also be creat-
ed that include customer details such
as the serial numbers, part numbers,
and asset tag numbers of all the recy-
cled items.

At the same time, we partner
with state-of-the-art recycling facili-
ties that process returns in an envi-
ronmentally responsible manner. We
hold partners to strict environmental
standards and monitor their perfor-
mance regularly, helping ensure that
electronics are recycled and kept out
of landfills.
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