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Contents Sustainable Impact Footprint Integrity and human rights Supply chain responsibility Operations Products and solutions Appendix Other materials experience while driving progress toward a Key initiatives in 2021 • Packaging: We developed a paper wrap for We continue to explore the use of other renewable circular and net zero carbon economy: The following is a selection of the many packaging notebooks that protects the device exterior materials. For example, we are evaluating the innovation projects at HP designed to advance and replaces the traditional plastic bag. In 2021, sustainability attributes of plastics made from • Eliminate unnecessary packaging material, the circular economy. In 2021, we completed more we launched one platform with paper wrap biobased feedstocks rather than fossil fuels and space, and hard-to-recycle materials such as than 30 new packaging innovation projects that packaging, and we plan to launch more in 2022. have created criteria to guide the product plastic foam. reduced our environmental impact. • Warehouse emissions: At selected HP development teams as they choose materials for • Innovate packaging designs to use materials ink supplies warehouses, we switched new products. Every bioplastic feedstock must be with lower environmental impact, such as Eliminate from traditional softwood pallets to pallets individually evaluated using LCAs to fully sustainable fiber and recycled plastics. HP is shifting away from plastic, foam, and other constructed with laminated veneer lumber, understand its environmental and social impacts • Prioritize high recycled content and easily hard-to-recycle materials, which have been reducing carbon footprint per pallet. and confirm that it is less impactful than the recyclable materials that can readily circulate traditionally used in packaging for most personal • Bulk shipping: By shipping more than 56,000 material it would replace. Bioplastic feedstocks through the economy. systems and printing products. For example: considered for use in products must be legal, notebooks, over 184,000 desktop PCs, and renewable, and sustainably grown without Watch a video to learn how HP is tackling the • Personal systems: In 2021, we shipped about 1,300 workstations in bulk (where several impacting regional food security, land use plastic packaging challenge, and learn about our almost 65 million units of personal systems products share one package), HP reduced practices, or critical ecosystems—as verified work to sustainably source renewable materials products in molded fiber or hybrid foam/fiber packaging materials by 815 tonnes in 2021, while through a credible crop management certification and counteract deforestation. packaging, representing about 74% of units also decreasing GHG emissions associated standard. Also, the use of bioplastic feedstocks shipped during the year and more than double with packaging and transportation. must not impact the recyclability of the plastic To address packaging at end-of-life, we offer take- the number shipped in fiber packaging in 2020. Circulate resins, so they can continue to cycle through back services and regularly update the Recycle This included 1.8 million units transitioned from HP’s efforts to eliminate single-use plastic the economy. your HP packaging guide to help consumers avoid foam packaging during the year, eliminating sending packaging materials to landfill. 407 tonnes of hard-to-recycle expanded packaging help to advance the circular economy. plastic foam. We continue to roll out easily recyclable, fiber- based packaging cushions created from recycled The HP Spectre x360 14 has the world’s • Printing: In 2021, we eliminated over 300 tonnes content. In 2021, we used approximately 19,000 first keyboard mechanism incorporating 2025 GOAL of hard-to-recycle expanded plastic foam from tonnes of fiber-based packaging cushions, which 48 the packaging of more than 5 million printer agricultural waste feedstock. During 2021, we launched the Spectre x360 16, Eliminate 75% of single-use plastic packaging units (see Circulate for more detail). which also has a keyboard mechanism by 2025, compared to 201850 49 Innovate To enable innovative packaging for others, incorporating agricultural waste feedstock. PROGRESS IN 2021 HP provides compostability certificates for We continue to improve the tooling design and fiber-based packaging printed with HP C500, fabrication process in the molded fiber industry HP PageWide Press, and HP Indigo industrial Packaging innovation with our 3D printing technology, and in 2021, we graphics printers. These certificates confirm 44% shipped more than 150,000 HP product units with that the ink used by the printers will not Our sustainable packaging strategy has three reduction, from an average of 221 grams/unit cushions made using this proprietary technology. compromise customers’ ability to compost focus areas, aiming to enhance customer in 2018 to 124 grams/unit in 2021 See a video about the HP Molded Fiber Advanced packaging after use. Tooling Solution. 80 2021 HP Sustainable Impact Report www.hp.com/sustainableimpact

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