HP e-Waste Management - E-Waste Guide
HP e-Waste Management - E-Waste Guide
HP e-Waste Management - E-Waste Guide
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<strong>HP</strong> e-<strong>Waste</strong><br />
<strong>Management</strong><br />
<strong>Waste</strong>Con 2008<br />
Ruben Janse van Rensburg<br />
<strong>HP</strong> SA Environmental Business Lead<br />
© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.<br />
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice
e-<strong>Waste</strong> @ <strong>HP</strong><br />
“Environmental responsibility is good business. We’ve reached<br />
the tipping point where the price and performance of IT are no<br />
longer compromised by being green, but are now enhanced<br />
by it.”<br />
Mark Hurd<br />
Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Mission<br />
3<br />
<strong>HP</strong>'s Corporate environmental social<br />
strategy / focus<br />
Ethics<br />
Resources<br />
Social responsibility – since 1957 included in <strong>HP</strong>’s business objectives<br />
Competitive<br />
advantage<br />
thanks to a<br />
remarkable<br />
corporate culture<br />
Environment<br />
Holistic strategy<br />
for the entire<br />
product lifecycle:<br />
from design to<br />
manufacturing,<br />
from<br />
transportation to<br />
recycling<br />
Human<br />
rights and<br />
work<br />
environment<br />
<strong>HP</strong> and their<br />
subcontractors<br />
offer a safe<br />
working<br />
environment<br />
without any<br />
health risks<br />
Privacy<br />
<strong>HP</strong> protects<br />
privacy and<br />
data security of<br />
their customers<br />
Climate & Energy Return & Recycling<br />
Social<br />
investment<br />
Support of<br />
socio-economic<br />
projects
<strong>HP</strong> Global e-<strong>Waste</strong> Responsibility<br />
Principles<br />
4<br />
<strong>HP</strong> supports the following principles in the development of e-<br />
<strong>Waste</strong> policies:<br />
• Individual producer responsibility (IPR)<br />
� Minimise environmental impact at design stage<br />
� Incentive for producers<br />
• Shared responsibility<br />
� Commercial Customers – Producer take back end of life<br />
equipment replaced by new/ similar equipment<br />
� Consumers – Public collection points serviced by<br />
producers for collection and recycling. Government/<br />
Association regulation for clearing and take back<br />
activities<br />
� <strong>HP</strong> – eWASA Memorandum of Understanding on<br />
local Take Back Model
<strong>HP</strong> - <strong>Management</strong> of e-<strong>Waste</strong> in Africa<br />
• <strong>HP</strong> e-<strong>Waste</strong> project in Africa in partnership with the Digital Global<br />
Solidarity Fund (DSF) and the Swiss Institute for Materials Science and<br />
Technology (Empa)<br />
• <strong>HP</strong> e-<strong>Waste</strong> Sponsored Projects – Recycling pilot in RSA, research<br />
projects in Morocco and Kenya<br />
• Goal to reduce health and environmental hazards by improper<br />
disposal and to create jobs in disadvantage communities
<strong>HP</strong>/ Producer e-<strong>Waste</strong> challenges and<br />
expectations<br />
6<br />
Challenges:<br />
• Misleading E-<strong>Waste</strong> perceptions<br />
�e-<strong>Waste</strong> consisting predominantly of IT hardware<br />
�Dangers from IT e-<strong>Waste</strong> limited only to hazardous<br />
components such as CRT’s<br />
• Upgrade the local informal collection/recycling sector<br />
infrastructure towards accepted standards and practices<br />
Expectations:<br />
• Economically self sustainable systems<br />
• Government to work with the industry<br />
• Public education
Thank you
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