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[September 26, 2009]

HP Sets New 'Green' Goals

Sep 25, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- HP announced that it has established new goals to reduce the energy use and carbon intensity of its operations and products as well as reported its progress on environmental initiatives across the company.

HP stated that it has already met its goal of reducing combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of HP operations and products to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2010.

HP's new goal is to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all its products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.

Additionally, HP's goal is to reduce GHG emissions from HP-owned and HP-leased facilities 20 percent under 2005 levels by 2013 on an absolute basis. This goal is independent of organic business growth and will be accomplished by reducing the worldwide energy footprint of HP facilities and data centers. In addition, HP plans to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

"HP continues to build and report on transparent programs that support environmental sustainability as a global business strategy," said Shane Robison, executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer, HP. "By shedding light on our energy use and carbon footprint - and by extension our customers and partners - we're driving greater efficiency across the global economy." Between 2005 and 2008, HP stated that its combined product and operational efficiencies have reduced its GHG emissions by more than 4 million metric tons. The company said it has reduced the energy used in its operations by 9 percent since 2005, toward a previous goal of 16 percent by 2010.

HP reported that recent progress on sustainable business practices include: - HP has shipped more than 500 million inkjet cartridges through its "closed loop" inkjet cartridge recycling process, which allows recycled plastic from empty cartridges returned through the Planet Partners program (which has collected more than 300 million inkjet and HP LaserJet cartridges combined) and recycled plastic from other sources to be used in the manufacture of new Original HP cartridges.

- HP also will offer 100 percent recycled single packaging expanded polyethylene (EPE) cushions across the HP Compaq 6000 Pro desktop PC series, available in North America and Latin America.

- HP expanded the number of high-efficiency internal power supplies, Energy Star 5.0 qualified PCs and advanced power management features and introduced the industry's first Energy Star and Epeat registered thin clients.

- The HP Photosmart ML1000D Minilab printer helps retail customers realize a 64 percent savings in energy and an average savings of 800 gallons of chemical and water discharge per year compared to silver-halide photo finishing system.

- HP ProLiant Generation 6 servers, which began shipping in 2009, deliver twice the performance at half the power draw of the previous generation.

- HP ProLiant servers are qualified with the Energy Star for Computer Servers 1.0 guidelines released in May; both HP ProLiant DL 360 and 380 servers carry the seal, with additional compliant HP servers expected in coming months.

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