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When we released our Foreign Migrant Worker Standard in
2014, we took a strong stand and significantly pushed the
industry forward on this critical issue, becoming the first IT
company to require direct employment of foreign migrant
workers by our suppliers.
These requirements are still industry leading. In 2015, we
launched an assessment program to delve deeper into the
management systems and practices of suppliers, providing a
better understanding of persistent issues that we can target
through trainings and capability building. And, in 2017,
we established a company-wide Human Rights Council to
further focus our efforts.
Nonetheless, forced labor is a real challenge across our
industry, potentially impacting the hundreds of thousands
of people employed throughout the IT supply chain.
Regulations like the UK Modern Slavery and California
Transparency Acts elevated the profile of this issue and spur
discussion and action within our industry and beyond. We
embrace well-designed regulation as a way to drive industry-
wide action and set a common practice for reporting on
activities to combat modern-day slavery. Collaboration
among leading companies on this issue is also critical to
inspire and achieve the scale and momentum needed to
improve worker recruitment and stop modern slavery and
human trafficking.
In the past few years we have continued to expand our due
diligence on the topic of forced labor and modern slavery.
We go beyond the requirements of regulations to proactively
sense and address risk across our supply chain, and to
support capability building among suppliers so that workers
can thrive at home, at work, and in their communities. In
2017 we set bold new goals to increase supplier participation
in our programs and continue to improve workers’ skills and
well-being. We are working hand in hand with our suppliers
on these kinds of initiatives, with a focus on vulnerable
workers such as women and student workers.
SUSTAINABLE IMPACT OPENS NEW
INNOVATION OPPORTUNITIES
As we continue to look for new ways to deliver positive lasting
change for planet, people, and community, we are also finding
new ways to deliver greater value to our customers—better
performance, cost savings, and brand benefits.
The best innovation stems from working in true partnership
with our suppliers. As we work to transform our entire
business for a circular and low-carbon economy, we are
engaging our supply chain in new ways—asking our supplier
partners to problem-solve with us, to build new solutions, and
help to deliver greater value for our business and for society.
For example, through our closed-loop recycling process, we
have taken back used print cartridges and combined them with
other post-consumer plastic materials, including plastic bottles
and hangers, to create more than 3.8 billion new ink and toner
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cartridges. Through this process, we help divert, on average,
more than 1 million plastic bottles per day from landfills.
Building on this work, nearly two years ago, we launched a
unique and groundbreaking supply chain partnership in one
of the most challenging markets. Together with supplier,
nonprofit, and private-sector partners, we created an entirely
new supply chain in Haiti that provides plastic input for
our closed-loop recycled plastic supply chain, and helping
us divert waste from landfills and providing better incomes
and educational opportunities for hundreds of people. As
of October 2018, we have sourced more than 250 tonnes of
ocean-bound plastic from Haiti. And, we did this in a way
that is at or below cost of our traditional recycled plastic
supply chain.
This innovation was possible because of our close,
collaborative partnership with a key supplier. Similarly, a
partnership with our retail partner Best Buy has enabled us
to expand our closed-loop plastics recycling to hardware.
Last year, we launched the HP ENVY Photo 6200, 7100,
and 7800 printers, the world’s first-in-class printers made
with more than 20 percent closed-loop recycled content,
by weight.
As we look ahead and consider the trends driving the Fourth
Industrial Revolution, we imagine the supply chain of the
future—one that is nimble and efficient, digitally enabled,
radically transparent, and environmentally sustainable.
This is where we are heading, and we will need all the
innovation, creativity, and drive that our supply chain
can offer to get there.
Our suppliers are critical partners as we work to achieve
our vision of a more ethical and sustainable future for our
business and for society. We work with them to set bold
shared goals, to meet and go beyond compliance with global
regulations, and to innovate to meet changing customer
needs and stay ahead of market demands.
Together, we are transforming for a more circular and low-
carbon business future, and ensuring that all people can
thrive at home, at work, and in their communities.
1. This continues a goal from before the separation of Hewlett-Packard Company
on November 1, 2015, extending the goal to 2025. Includes data from suppliers
associated with HP Inc. and HP Inc. pre-separation business units.