HP earns top environmental rating for entire workstation line

HP has announced that its entire personal workstation line has become the first in the category to achieve a “Gold” listing – the highest rating products can achieve – in the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT).

With the addition of the workstations, HP is now said to have the largest number of EPEAT Gold registered products in the industry.

Already recognized for their advanced performance and tuning, the HP workstations’ environmental attributes include low energy consumption, use of environmentally sensitive materials and a reuse- and recycle-friendly design.

HP Workstations are tapped by the world’s most demanding power users in industries such as graphic arts, broadcast/video post, computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), engineering, finance and oil and gas exploration.

Companies use HP Workstations to design everything from running shoes to racecars, animated characters to deep-sea submersibles, and to manage everything from billions of dollars of tradable securities to mission-critical IT environments.

The current line of HP Workstations – all of them designed from the ground up for energy efficiency – include the HP xw4550 Workstation, the HP xw4600 Workstation, the HP xw6600 Workstation, the HP xw8600 Workstation, and the HP xw9400 Workstation.

All HP Workstations are more than 90 percent recyclable by weight and incorporate a tool-less chassis design for quick and easy upgrades by hand. All new HP workstations feature an 80 PLUS power supply. They are up to 15 percent more efficient than a standard power supply, reducing both overall energy usage and the amount of waste heat released into the environment.
The EPEAT registry is designed to help businesses easily evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on the products’ environmental attributes. EPEAT evaluates electronic products according to three tiers of environmental performance: Bronze, Silver and Gold. The program is sponsored by the Green Electronics Council, and its environmental criteria are defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

HP Asset Recovery Services Program
One of the optional requirements to the EPEAT program is providing a recycling program for the registered products or for the previous generation products that they will replace.

As part of its total lifecycle approach to reducing the environmental impact of its products, HP has introduced the Asset Recovery Services Program to help businesses responsibly dispose of their aging technology.

The Asset Recovery Services Program, which passed the 20-year milestone, seeks to reduce the environmental impact of IT products and help customers conveniently discard products in an environmentally sound fashion.

HP Asset Recovery Services covers a variety of product end-of-life management services. The program includes buy-back, trade-in, leasing arrangements, refurbishment and recycling services. This helps HP's commercial customers to retire older or obsolete IT equipment in a way that helps safeguard their proprietary information and offers an option for environmentally sound recycling.
For availability of these programs in your area as well as program terms and conditions, please see http://h50262.www5.hp.com/country/ap/assetrecovery/index.html

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