The Green 30

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
Computer products, Mississauga, Ont.

• Provides free employee recycling depots at its offices for batteries, mobile phones, ink and laser jet cartridges and compact discs; for last year’s Earth Day employees collected and recycled more than 46,000 kg of old electronics from their homes and company offices.
• Funds the employee-led “HP Sustainability Network” since 1998, which supports educational, networking and sustainable practice initiatives within the firm.
• Encourages employees to leave the car at home through a long-standing commitment to telecommuting, and also provides preferred parking for carpoolers and shower facilities for bicycle commuters at some locations.
• Head office is situated on seven hectares of land adjacent to an environmentally protected ravine, where the company planted more than 26,000 trees and shrubs; inside, the building features motion-sensitive lighting to cut energy use.
• “HP Green Advocates” program educates employee volunteers who attend quarterly training seminars and disseminate environmental information across the company, as well as to HP customers.
• As well as having recycled hundreds of millions of pounds of used computer equipment and ink cartridges since 1987, last year it sponsored “Waste Reduction Week”—volunteer employees collected more than 6,800 kg of discarded electronics at the University of Waterloo and sent it to the firm’s recycling facility in Brampton. (3,841)