Hewlett-Packard Recycled-Content Products

In 2003, Hewlett-Packard met its goal to introduce a hardware product containing recycled material content recovered from end-of-life HP products. Engineers from multiple product lines teamed up with HP’s Planet Partners recycling team to develop and qualify a plastics formulation that could replace virgin plastic with material obtained from HP end-of-life products. The team developed a material called recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET).

RPET is a blended material that contains plastic from HP print cartridges recycled in HP