This month Hewlett Packard celebrated a significant milestone: The IT firm has recycled 2 billion pounds of electronic products and supplies since it launched the program in 1987. The HP Planet Partners program operates in 58 countries and territories, helping HP recycle more used IT equipment than any other company.
In fact, HP recycled six times more IT equipment than IBM and over 75% more than Dell in 2010. And in 2009, HP recycled more IT equipment in two months than Apple did in the entire year.
Beyond recycling, HP has recovered an additional 410 million pounds of computer and printing hardware to date for reuse and remarketing. And in the last six years, HP has put approximately 20 million used IT products back into use through these efforts.
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