August 30, 2006—Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expanding its product take-back offering throughout Asia Pacific and Japan, where the company has aligned its trade-in, refurbishing, and recycling operations to offer full asset-recovery services to commercial customers in the region.
These services match existing consolidated asset-recovery and recycling services offered by HP in Europe and the Americas. Consumer collection programs also are planned for specified locations in Australia , China and France.
HP is reportedly on target to meet its global goal to recycle 1 billion pounds of hardware and HP print cartridges by the end of 2007. In 2005, HP recycled approximately 140 million pounds of hardware and HP print cartridges globally—an increase of 17 percent over the previous year. Since the company began recycling, it has recycled 750 million pounds in total.
For more information visit HP’s Product Reuse and Recycling page.
