Print.IT Reseller - issue 71
VOX POP 01732 759725 44 As a successful multi-national company, it has an incredible responsibility, but also a considerable influence on matters of sustainability and ethics. It has a duty to protect these vital considerations and also to demonstrate to customers that it has a moral conscience.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk Mike Barron, Managing Director, SYNAXON UK “The SYNAXON group has a very positive approach to sustainability and the environment and we do everything we can to encourage our own staff to be as sustainable as they can be in their work. We operate from modern, energy-efficient offices in Warrington and our staff are encouraged to travel as little as possible and to work from home for one or two days a week. Like many organisations, we try to minimise use of paper (we send invoices and other documents electronically), packaging and plastic, and provide recycling facilities for staff to use. “Sustainability is a subject that’s on everyone’s agenda now. It’s not just specific to print of course, and I think most organisations do already try to discourage over-use of printers to minimise energy and paper consumption. We should continue to encourage this and also make customers aware of the eco-friendly options that are available from major print vendors. “We’re looking at different options to reduce the carbon impact of our events. These are likely to include minimising use of paper by providing digital show guides and asking exhibitors to provide digital materials instead of the usual paper- based hand-outs. “We have discussed what we can do for and with our members to help them follow more sustainable practices and reduce the environmental impact of their activities, such as increasing the use of collaboration. Making the activities of the channel as a whole more sustainable is a big challenge, but one we all need to address, because it’s a very real and vitally important issue, and something end-user customers are asking about much more often.” www.synaxon.co.uk George Brasher, Managing Director, HP UK & Ireland “From an HP perspective, we already have a long-running and expansive sustainable impact strategy, covering people (diversity and inclusion), planet (sustainability) and community (tech- enabled learning). Each year we publish a Sustainable Impact Report, freely available on our website, transparently detailing all our initiatives, goals and achievements to date. A few examples of these include; an 11 per cent reduction in product-related GHG emission intensity since 2015, a 47 per cent reduction of operational emissions since 2015, and a goal by 2035 to power global operations with 100 per cent renewable electricity. “These are substantial commitments. Last month, HP was positioned sixth on Barron’s respected 100 Most Sustainable Companies list – our third consecutive year in the top ten. Elsewhere, environmental non-profit organisation, CDP, awarded HP ‘Triple A’ status for taking climate actions, protecting forests and addressing water security – one of only five companies to make this grade. “We have a range of initiatives to help our print partners and their end customers become more sustainable. The HP Planet Partners programme, for example, provides a closed-loop recycling service for a business’s print hardware and supplies. “Products collected via Planet Partners are part of the 395,200 tonnes of tech recycled by HP globally from 2016 through 2018. We aim to have recycled 1.2 million tonnes by 2025. Also contributing to these numbers are cartridges collected via Instant Ink, our consumer print supplies subscription service which includes a pre-paid recycling process. “Then, of course, we are offering our customers products that have an increasingly reduced environmental footprint. For instance, 100 per cent of HP Original toner cartridges and 80 per cent of Original ink cartridges are manufactured with post-consumer plastic. This includes more than one million pounds (roughly 35 million plastic bottles) of ocean-bound plastics collected in Haiti. “It’s also worth channel partners being aware that our managed print service offerings come with recycling options, via the Planet Partners programme, while our Device as a Service (DaaS) contractual models do too, covering PC hardware.” www.hp.com ...continued... George Brasher Mike Barron
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