HP stands for Hazardous Products
GREEPEACE ACTIVISTS HAVE SCALED Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in California and painted the words 'HP = Hazardous Products' on the roof in protest against the company's failure to phase out its use of hazardous chemicals.
Simultaneous protests were launched on HP offices in China and Holland.
Just in case showing up on Google Maps wasn't enough to shame HP into action, Greanpeace also enlisted the help of Captain James Tiberius Kirk. The protesters played an automated phone call from actor William Shatner, challenging HP to phase(r) out the toxic chemicals.
The coordinated protests highlight HP's backtracking on a commitment made in 2007 to phase out environmentally hazardous chemicals, such as brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), from its products by the end of this year.
Earlier this year, HP postponed the phasing out of the chemicals to a gradual reduction during the period 2009 to 2011.
These chemicals currently contribute to the world's toxic electronic waste crisis, says Greenpeace. µ
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Never mind the chemicals, their equipment is prety hazardus too. (lamenting owner of an HP Laptop and printer).
My company is a complete HP shop and i have to say they have come a long way over the last few years. Their new notebooks come with cardboard (no styrofoam) there machines are now aluminum (no paints) and they have reduced the amount of packaging material using used in all products.
Compared to some I think they have done a lot.
HP cannot control the chemicals in their products. Simple.
Eveything (and I do mean everything) that's branded as "hp" is made in China (I do own an hp laptop, and guess where it's made). In fact, they 've outscourced so many things to China, that they can't even control the quality of their products, yet their enviromental impact. As many people and magazines say, hp laptops have nothing from hp in them.
Also, the factories they 've outsourced products to are so many, that controlling all of them is virtually impossible from one day to the other. So, they 'll need time for that. They 'll just reduce chemicals to one factory at a time. *Sigh*
Before i could view this artical, I had to look at a HP ad. So do advertisers like to have there products trashed on the site there paying? Dont seam very PC lol.
How many other major brands within consumer electronics offer their customers trade in and recycling of ALL their products? (HP even offers trade in for NON HP products!)
How many other manufactures of supplies, like toners offers a recycling process with FREE pickup of the empty cartridge?
HP is probably a world leader in recycling of consumer electronics if you start looking at their recycling/trade-in rates.
I really hate HP, I've had that much trouble with laptops and motherboards dieing with this company.
Hazardous Products is going to stick to this company now for the rest of its existence...that's kind of funny and they deserve it.
HP - Hazardous Products for life!
To kurkosdr-
Um, let's see. EVERY NOTEBOOK from EVERY major company is made in China you nitwit. Not just HP. Matter of fact, there are 3 companies in China that makes all the notebooks resulting in them all having the same failure rates, including APPLE.
HP epitomizes the greedy global company the will do anything for a profit.
I worked there during the Carly era. Vyomesh Joshi and Carly took a butcher knife to everything in sight. While HP lied to us about there plans, we naively trained our foreign replacements. Then came the ongoing layoffs. One after another after another... The constant droning of Vyomesh Joshi glorifying his "transformation" plan. Transformation was to India and China was the real goal of course. A "thank you" and a box to empty your desk is what the people who built HP received. HP used lead based solder until the EU banned it. Then HP got around that by importing lead filled "replacement" parts as a loophole. Who knows what is in there products now. I wouldn't be surprised if they contained radioactive waste.
Yup, HP stands for Hazardous Products
Right, let's take out all of the hazardous chemicals so we can kill the realibility of the products, increase delivery damage 10x before they even arrive, and then make it more suceptible to burst into flames and burn down your house...all at the same time ADDING COST to the products in the midst of a major recession. Stupid narrow-minded Greenpeace idiots...
Green piss promotes dangerous fossil fuels and useless wind turbines. They have no room to complain.