HP Innovation Journal Issue 04: Fall 2016 | Page 11

recycling products, such as PCs, printers, or their environmental impact. Solutions such Reinventing the future
cartridges, is more complex.
as Managed Print Services (MPS) and Device- of computing today
HP has been a recycling leader for de- as-a-Service provide customers with access to
cades, developing innovations that enable us the latest technologies, allowing them to scale And HP will continue to innovate with disrup-
to reduce our products’ environmental impact up or down as their business grows or shrinks tive technologies such as 3D printing that will
and meet our customers’ demands to reduce and ensuring that resources are not wasted transform how whole industries work. For
waste. For example, 25 years
example, using 3D printers
ago the company launched
to manufacture spare parts
the HP Planet Partners re-
or fully assembled products,
turn and recycling program.
companies will be able to
Future
Through this program, we
perfectly match supply with
Growth
Core
have collected more than 3.3
demand. This will reduce
billion pounds of hardware
waste and the need for phys-
and supplies — the equiva-
ical inventories of thousands
lent weight of more than 150
of parts and products that
• Closed loop recycling
• HP Managed Print
• 3D printing
Eiffel Towers.
are stored for later use — or
• Modular system designs
• HP Instant Ink
HP Planet Partners facili-
worse never used at all.
tates another ground-break-
HP believes that by rein-
ing innovation — our closed loop recycle through equipment reuse, refurbishment, or venting how they make, use, and regenerate
progra