HP has joined Two Sides as part of its mission to promote sustainable print.
“HP are delighted to become a member of Two Sides. We aim to be the world’s most sustainable and just tech company, taking urgent action to combat climate change, protect human rights, and accelerate digital equity. As sustainability is an important factor for many of our customers and consumers, the library of facts that we have access to by joining Two Sides, will be of great use in our own customer communications, helping to promote our print and paper products,” said Peter Jolly, UK and Ireland HP industrial country manager.
Since 2016, HP brand paper has been derived from recycled or certified sources, and since 2020 this has also been the case for paper-based packaging for home and office printers and supplies, PCs, and displays. In late 2020, HP MPS was certified CarbonNeutral in accordance with the CarbonNeutral Protocol. In 2021, it extended CarbonNeutral product certification to HP Component MPS, which provides partners a mechanism to make their contractual obligations carbon neutral using the same stringent requirements and standards as HP MPS.
As part of its effort to create a more circular economy, HP has reduced single-use plastic packaging by 44% compared to 2018, and increased the use of recycled content plastic across its personal systems and print products. This is part of the company’s Planet Partners recycling programme, which launched in 1991, where used HP ink and toner cartridges are returned to HP to be recycled so they become new products and don’t end up in oceans or landfill. To date, HP has reached a milestone of 1bn cartridges recycled through HP Planet Partners.
