• HP participates in Energy Star and the PFC Emissions Reduction Partnership and other voluntary, beyond-compliance programs.
• HP laptops are becoming increasingly energy-efficient.

—Source: http://www.calvert.com

• Was on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2005 Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters list.
• HP offers a free recycling program; you can recycle HP inkjet and LasrJet cartridges with either the return materials that came in their packages or by ordering the shipping materials (either way, postage is paid).
• They also recycle all brands of computing, printing and multifunction hardware. You can request recycling services on their website.
• “HP is committed to providing customers with inventive, high quality products and services that are environmentally sound and to conduct our operations in an environmentally responsible manner. That commitment continues to be one of our guiding principles that are deeply ingrained in our values. It is from this history and these values that HP has become a leader in delivery of environmentally sustainable solutions for the common good. HP meets this commitment with a comprehensive environmental, health & safety policy, strict environmental management of our operations and worldwide environmental programs and services.”
• HP’s website offers opportunities to recycle, trade-in, return or donate your HP products.

—Source: http://www.hp.com

More than 70 environmental groups have signed a letter to former Vice President Al Gore, who sits on the board of Apple, asking him to push the company to become more sustainable. Environmentalists express surprise that as America’s best-known environmental advocate, Gore would oppose shareholder resolutions—which Apple claims were unanimously voted against—asking Apple to become greener.

-- Computer TakeBack Campaign, 03/22/2007
Source URL: www.computertakeback.com/news_and_resources/letter_to_gore.cfm

Apple Computer Inc. was one of the companies included in Greenpeace International’s “E-waste Hall of Shame.” Greenpeace International discovered Apple products in their visit to a Chinese scrap yard. Apple, along with IBM, Panasonic, Toshiba, and Acer, has not committed to remove chemicals from products or be responsible for the safe recycling and responsible disposal of their products.

-- Greenpeace, 06/20/2006
Source URL: www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-...

Greenpeace, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental advocacy group, released its annual “Guide to Greener Electronics” as part of an effort to encourage electronics companies to “clean up their act.” The Guide ranks 14 of the leading computer and mobile technology companies on a scale of one to 10 based on criteria relating to recycling, phase out of toxic chemicals and corporate responsibility issues. Apple was dead last scoring 2.7, almost a full point behind the next lowest company, Panasonic.

-- Greenpeace, 03/01/2007
Source URL: www.greenpeace.org/electronics