HP announced it has qualified all business PC, printing and server products shipped throughout the United States and Canada for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay logo labelling program that aims to reduce the fuel consumption, greenhouse gases and other air emissions of surface transportation carriers.

While the EPA has about 950 SmartWay Transport Partners, HP, in April, became the first company to qualify to have the SmartWay logo placed on its product packaging after it certified that its surface transportation carrier network for consumer accessories, desktop and monitor products was composed entirely of SmartWay-compliant carriers.

HP has now qualified the complete surface transportation carrier networks for its business desktops, monitors, notebooks, servers, storage, thin clients and workstations, as well as all imaging and printing devices.

“With more than 210,000 partners and retailers in the United States and around the globe, HP is working to not only reduce the environmental impact of its own products and operations, but also the impact of our entire supply chain network,” said Tony Prophet, senior vice-president, Worldwide Supply Chain Operations, HP. “Working across HP businesses to expand our support of the SmartWay programme and other similar initiatives will help us achieve this goal.”

SmartWay is an innovative partnership between the EPA and the freight industry. The program’s goals are to lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 33 million to 66 million tons annually by 2012 and nitrogen oxide (NOx) by 200,000 tons annually, along with additional reductions in particulate matter and air toxins. The initiative will result in fuel savings of up to 150 million barrels of oil annually – or the equivalent of removing 12 million cars from the road.