01732 759725 44 VOX POP continued... Tim Griffin is due to cover this topic in the next company-wide briefing. A number of surveys will be used, 1. Understand commuting details so we can record carbon emission impact. 2. Understand what sustainability means to our teams, what do they have an interest in, what do they want us to see us change and improve to make a positive difference to them, the business and or the environment. Sonia Mangat: The way we see it is that every job is a climate job. HP looks to engage and empower every employee to take ownership of sustainability. For the past three years, under the leadership of our CEO Enrique Lores, sustainable impact targets, including diversity, equity, and inclusion, have been part of the annual performance evaluation for our executive leadership team. Since 2021, every employee is encouraged to set a sustainable impact goal when drawing up their personal development goals. This process gives every employee across the globe a personal stake in the success of HP’s overall sustainable impact strategy, regardless of their role or title. For employees working in roles not traditionally associated with sustainability, understanding how and where to contribute can be elusive. By giving employees the training and support to connect individual sustainable impact goals with their everyday job responsibilities, we’re creating a focused, connected network of the impact that’s aligned with our corporate vision and strategy. We also provide training and support to connect employees’ sustainable impact goals with their everyday responsibilities. For example, employees may choose to actively engage in HP’s organised community activities such as beach clean-ups. Others may commit to expanding our closed-loop recycling process or opt to empower our customers’ transition to a circular, low carbon economy. The idea is that employees feel they have greater control in their work while helping accelerate our efforts to create positive, lasting change at scale. PrintIT Reseller: Have you partnered with any groups/ organisations to support your key sustainability initiatives? Steve Hawkins: We have focused in quite some depth with third party organisations to be able to bring sustainable value to us, and our customers. We work with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise to offer a total asset recovery programme that covers older technology such as phones, PCs, laptops, tablets, servers, etc. This allows extensive circular remarketing of older technology with total security wipe certification, and financial incentives for customers rather than having to pay a cost for removal. All equipment going through this programme is included in a circular economy report. As an HP Power Services Amplify Partner we have committed to the HP Impact Pledge designed to demonstrate a commitment to delivering sustainability solutions for customers. This includes a programme to demonstrate examples where we have assisted customers in lowering their carbon footprint, and detailed training requirements to maintain the status. As part of the managed print offering we partner with PrintReleaf. This programme operates on the basis of ‘you print one, we plant one’, and goes towards the planting of sustainable forestation aligned to United Nations location lists. We also partner with HP Inc. to offer carbon offset programmes where devices provided at source can be certified with net zero carbon impact. We partner with the HP Planet Partners programme that offers our customers a free of charge service to not only put spent consumables into provided ‘boxes’ but also for free of charge collection, and then total raw materials recycling, and removal of any hazardous waste in a certified environmentally friendly fashion. We also partner with the Xerox Green World Alliance Recycling Programme which allows customers to send back used toner cartridges to Xerox for recycling, and we encourage customers to use the Xerox Print Awareness tool to help reduce print volumes via a dashboard delivering details of print volumes at a personal level and suggestions for improvements. Kevin Wragg: As mentioned above, we worked with Arete Zero Carbon to assess our own emissions and formulate an action plan and we subsequently extended that partnership to offer a net zero carbon consultancy service. This enables partners to assess their own carbon emissions using the globally accepted greenhouse gas protocol and formulate a plan detailing practical and actionable strategies to help them reduce their impact. We’re meeting with and talking to our partners all the time about the ways in which how we can help each other to reduce emissions and improve sustainability. It’s such a vitally important issue now and, as well as being the right thing to do, it makes business sense. End-user customers want to know that their IT supplier – and their suppliers in turn – are as sustainable as they can be. Justin Willis: ASL has partnered with PrintReleaf since 2019 – in fact we were the first Platinum partner in the UK. To date we have reforested over 37,000 trees and offset more than 316,000,000 pages. John Draycott: We work with the BPIF for our customer facing engagement within the industry promoting sustainability and waste reduction programmes like the BPIF Display & POS – recycling scheme. We are an EcoVadis rated partner and will be using the programme to drive our improvement agenda of 2023-24. We will engage with our customers and suppliers to enable them to see how we would like them to move forward with us to improve our FSC Chain of Custody We will engage with our customers and suppliers to enable them to see how we would like them to move forward with us to improve our FSC Chain of Custody certification which is due at the end of Q1 2023 John Draycott
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