Hewlett-Packard’s environmental goals are to provide products and services that are environmentally sound through their lifecycles and to conduct their operations worldwide in an environmentally responsible manner.  Hewlett-Packard seeks to minimize its environmental footprint by reducing the amount and impact of the materials used, decreasing the amount of energy used by their products, designing products to be recycled more effectively at the end of their life, and offering several take-back options for customers to recycle electronic waste. Hewlett-Packard works through its supply chain to extend its social and environmental standards throughout the industry.

The Boise site manufacturing processes include a nickel-plating process that produces a nickel-containing waste.  This wastewater is concentrated through a reverse osmosis process and, until last December, was sent off-site for incineration. HP has installed a new Ni Electro-Winning process that will now plate the nickel out of the wastewater and onto pellets that can then be sent off for recycling.

Hewlett Packard’s Boise site has an active employee-run Sustainability Network, whose vision is to help employees conduct their personal and professional lives more sustainably. The network holds environmental education events, such as a facility-wide Earth Day fair, and facilitates sustainability classes at the site. The network collected 700 pounds of sneakers as part of a local Kiwanis Club recycling project. The network helped establish an on-site bike maintenance shop to support alternative transportation by employees.

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