HP announced several milestones in the company’s push to deliver energy savings, decrease carbon footprint and offer products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their environmental impact.

As part of these efforts, HP is offering ways to help customers reduce waste in their printing uses; and introducing ways to reduce waste through product packaging.

To date, HP has produced more than 1 billion ink cartridges manufactured with recycled plastic. Through this and other efforts, HP has pledged to use a total of 100 million pounds of recycled plastic in printing products by 2011 (cumulatively, since 2007).

HP has developed manufacturing processes that use recycled plastics, including HP ink cartridges and plastic water bottles, in Original HP ink cartridges to deliver an estimated 22 percent reduction in carbon footprint and a 69% reduction in total water use when compared with using virgin plastics in the manufacture of 1 billion Original HP ink cartridges. Recycling efforts by customers and HP have kept approximately 1.3 billion plastic bottles and 160 million HP ink cartridges out of landfills.

HP is improving the efficiency of its recycling processes. The recycled plastic used in HP ink cartridges produced in 2010 and beyond is estimated to reduce total water used in plastics production by up to 89%.