Hewlett-Packard introduced the Planet Partners toner-cartridge recycling program in 1991. All consumers had to do was put used cartridges back in their original packaging, apply a prepaid shipping lab ...

In the early 1990s, Hewlett-Packard began reclaiming precious metals from obsolete products and old circuit boards through smelting.

Steve Henning, a packaging engineer in the Storage Divison at HP’s Greeley, Colorado, facility, led the division’s effort to use recycled material in its polystyrene-foam packaging. Henning brought si ...

Bob Bell, site engineering manager of the Boise office, urged Hewlett-Packard to cease using ozone-depleting chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). His efforts led the company to eliminate CFC ...

Hewlett-Packard’s Santa Rosa site irrigated all 10 acres of its landscaping with reclaimed manufacturing water — which amounted to 43 million gallons of water in 1992 alone. (Left to right) John Walz, ...

In the fall of 1990, researchers sealed themselves inside Biosphere II, the world’s largest terrarium, in the Arizona desert. Over a two-year stint, the terrarium’s ecological systems would recycle ai ...

HP employees Simon Forsyth and Julie Parker (left and center) volunteered for the “green team” at the company’s Bristol site, planting wildflowers with Helen Hall (right) of the Avon Wildlife Trust. H ...

Eliminating ozone-depleting chemicals from production was one of Hewlett-Packard’s biggest environmental challenges. In 1989, Hewlett-Packard’s facilities used 1.5 million pounds of chlorofluorocarbon ...

Hewlett-Packard’s Wynyard Data Center in Northeast England was designed to work with local conditions to be as energy efficient as possible. The facility used the cold air from the North Sea to cool i ...

Hewlett-Packard embraced alternative sourcing early in its history. By the 1990s, Hewlett-Packard’s facilities in Grenoble, France, and Roseville, California, were processing more than 500,000 combine ...