75% of the cartridges of ink of HP manufacture with plastic recycled

HP has announced that more than the 75 percent of his cartridges of ink and the 24 percent of his cartridges of toner HP LaserJet already manufacture with plastic recycled through a process of ‘enclosed circuit'.

This milestone represents an increase of the 50 percent in the number of cartridges of ink of HP manufactured with material recycled during the last year, what contributes to the consumers more options to buy this type of cartridges.

Like part of the strategy Living Progress of the company to promote the human progress, economic and environingingmental, HP is identifying opportunities regarding action and innovation to create a better future. Through these innovations in the field of the plastic, HP is helping to the customers to reduce his environingingmental impact and the global impact derived of the use of the products.

“Our customers want to contained form of high quality so much for professional documents like personal, without that it affect to his budget or engage his commitment with the environingingmental responsibility”, affirms Stephen Nigro, vice-president of Inkjet and Solutions of Impressesion. “We are offering to our customers from cartridges manufactured with plastic recycled until products of impressesion energetically efficient, so that do easier that save costs and resources in his daily life”.

The process of recycled of cartridges of ‘enclosed circuit' of HP employs plastic recycled of cartridges returned as well as of other sources, between which include bottles and hangers of plastic recycled to create cartridges of original ink HP.

With the reuse of materials, HP has contributed to the ‘circular economy' through:

• Keep out of the dumps 566 million cartridges HP returned from 1991.
• Use 2,5 billion of bottles of plastic post-consumption for the manufacture of new cartridges of ink HP from 2005.
• Incorporate near of 500 million kilos of hangers of clothes recycled in the most recent expansion of the process of recycling.
• Manufacture more than 2.000 million cartridges of ink and of toner HP originals manufactured with materials recycled..
• Provide plastic recycled of the process of recycling of ‘enclosed circuit' of HP, with a footprint of carbon a 33 percent lower and a 54 percent lower of consumption of fuel fossil in his production that the new plastic.

HP Planet Partners Launches in Morocco

HP Also has announced that his program of return and recycling of consumables HP Planet Partners also is available in Morocco, joining to more than 50 countries of all the world, between which include 34 countries in EMEA.

Now corporate customers and SMEs of all Morocco can benefit of the simple and comfortable recycled of consumables Originals of ink and LaserJet of HP.

So that it was easier for the customers, HP offers them the free and comfortable recycling of cartridges through the program HP Planet Partners. The customers can give back the cartridges used through the retailers and distributors of HP, when can leave the cartridges in the 9.000 points of collected in all world or by means of the return of the same directly to HP. More information in www.hp.com/recycle.