HP’s China re-cycling effort
p2pnet news | Product News:- Hewlett-Packard is only one notch below Apple in the Greenpeace Electronics Guide which ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they’re discarded by consumers.
That puts it in the 11th position out of 14 entries.
As Greenpeace sums it up, HP is a “free-faller, dropping down for failing to provide clear timelines for eliminating the worst chemicals. It looses points for weak definition of take back policies.”
But on the latter, it’s, “begun recycling PCs and other products for Chinese consumers and small businesses, expanding a free program that already existed for large companies,” says PC World, going on:
“Environmental protection is a growing concern in China, where cities and the countryside have been ravaged by years of headlong economic growth and heavy pollution. The country has also become a major destination for electronic waste shipped from overseas that has resulted in pollution in the towns where these items are processed.”
But starting today, people in China can drop off HP computers and other products, such as printers, monitors, and scanners, for recycling at service centers in 31 Chinese cities.
“These products will be sorted by HP and then sent out for recycling in China,” says the story, adding details of the recycling program are available in Chinese on HP’s Web site.
Also See:
PC World – HP Recycles PCs in China, September 4, 2007
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September 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Somehow I feel the “recycling” of old computers and associated products has more to do with preventing used items from reaching the aftermarket and competing with new equipment than it does with any environmental concern. On one hand, we hear of a “digital divide” because low cost computers on not availiable. On the other, repairable and salvagable items are slated for destruction so they wont reach landfills. Or the desks of low income persons.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
It’s not just the recycling but the prevention of toxic components ending up in landfills. Recycling needs to be a much more important criteria during the design phase as well.