EDITOR’S QUESTION
Making life better for
everyone, everywhere
While many companies utilise recycled materials in their products, few programmes help
bring systemic change to communities at the start of their supply chains, and that’s what
makes us unique says Mathew Thomas, Vice President and Managing Director, Middle East,
Turkey and East Africa, HP.
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s a multinational
IT company,
outline HP’s
latest global corporate
sustainability initiatives.
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P Sustainability is dedicated to
making life better for everyone,
everywhere, by reducing
our environmental impact. We are
reinventing product design, business
models and industry supply chains
to create a more efficient, low-carbon
circular economy. Our commitment is
based on our broader company values and
is core to our business.
We firmly believe that sustainable
supply chains have to start from the
bottom up and so we decided to move the
start of our ink cartridge supply chain to
Haiti. Our work there not only results in
a sustainable product, but in sustainable
solutions that vastly improve the quality of
life for landfill workers.
While many companies utilise
recycled materials in their products, few
programmes help bring systemic change
to communities at the start of their supply
chains, and that’s what makes us unique.
Our efforts in Haiti not only help the
environment, we’re making a real social
impact as well.
Furthermore, our ink cartridges made
from plastic recycled in Haiti are not
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part of a limited edition or special line
of product; they are integrated into our
regular product line. Our customers can be
confident that no matter what ink cartridge
they choose to buy, it will be made with
recycled parts. Original HP cartridges have
been engineered to use recycled plastic and
still meet HP’s demanding standards for
quality and reliability.
HP has also announced new supply
chain goals that include social aspects and,
while the goals are new, the commitment
is not. For more than a decade, we have
demonstrated industry leadership by
developing innovative ways to strengthen
social and environmental conditions
in our supplier factories. We’ve seen
increasing stakeholder interest in supply
chain issues, which makes HP’s focus on
external transparency more important
than ever. Customers care about where and
how their products are made, and want to
understand how we manage and address
supply chain issues.
And finally, HP has set a new education
goal because education is a core market
for HP technology, and is essential to
the sustainability of our business. It
powers the next generation of inventors,
leaders and future employees. But more
than that, quality education is vital to
the sustainability of our world. The UN’s
Sustainable Development Goals list includes
quality education and lifelong learning as
one of the key drivers in helping achieve
many of the 17 Global Goals.
Our new education goal focuses on
enabling better learning outcomes for 100
million people by 2025. To achieve this,
we are taking a multi-pronged approach
that will empower educators and engage
students of all levels, abilities, circumstance
and location. More information can be
found at www.hp.com/sustainability
Mathew Thomas, Vice President and Managing Director, Middle East, Turkey and East Africa, HP.
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