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You’ve probably heard by now that ‘print is dead’, but you wouldn’t know it by the number of ink cartridges HP pumps out of its manufacturing facilities every day. While pumping out a ton of plastic every day isn’t necessarily an environmentally-friendly thing to do as a business, HP is making great strides to ensure its manufacturing processes are more sustainable.

I recently had the opportunity to visit HP’s manufacturing facility, nicknamed DIMO (Dublin Ink Manufacturing Operations) and saw first-hand the sustainability initiatives that are being put in place. During the visit, HP made the announcement that their recycling initiatives had hit a new milestone: more than 75% of their ink cartridges now contain recycled plastic. This isn’t too bad for a company whose recycling programs only began incorporating recycled PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) in 2005, and whose last benchmark in recycled material quantity was 50% in 2013.

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