Hardware Recycling

Planet Partner Program

                   

Hardware Recycling Planet Partner Program

At HP we continue to drive the best-in-class customer return options in our supply chain, by driving a more circular economy with our global takeback hardware recycling program.
 
We offer Planet Partners in 67 countries. Return your end-of-life hardware today.

Planet Partners

“What goes around comes around,” and at HP, we’re here to make it count. With HP, you can return your end-of-life hardware equipment for recycling, which eventually provides materials to build new and sustainable HP products.

Return hardware

“What goes around comes around,” and at HP, we’re here to make it count. With HP, you can return your end-of-life hardware equipment for recycling, which eventually provides materials to build new and sustainable HP products.

Return hardware

What we do

Service offering

Do you want to learn more about our Take Back and hardware recycling program service offering?
 
82,526 tonnes of Hardware collected and recycled through our Planet Partner Program since 2016.

Compliance

HP has recycling Standards and employs strict business controls over the way we manage recycling activities.
 
Are you interested in knowing more about our four different compliance programs?

Recycling process

HP processes maximize recycling and material recovery up to an 89% recycling rate. The remaining waste is converted into energy.
 
Curious to learn more about how HP collects and recycles your materials?

Service offering

By partnering with HP and the HP Hardware Planet Partners Program to manage your end-of-life IT equipment, we offer a free of charge and easy to use service, which properly recycles our customer’s old HP equipment.

Recycling

Sustainability 
Benefit Report

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Service offering

By partnering with HP and the HP Hardware Planet Partners Program to manage your end-of-life IT equipment, we offer a free of charge and easy to use service, which properly recycles our customer’s old HP equipment.

Recycling

Sustainability 
Benefit Report

Pick up and 
Transportation

Learn

Compliance

Hardware Recycling Assurance Program

At HP, we prioritize robust compliance and responsible recycling of products by operating across four key pillars:

Hardware Recycling Assurance Program

At HP, we prioritize robust compliance and responsible recycling of products by operating across four key pillars:

  • Recycling Standards

    By implementing rigorous recycling standards, HP actively promotes the responsible recycling of materials through environmentally friendly, legally compliant, and safe processes.

    HP Recycling Standard

  • Recycling Vendor Audit Program

    Vendor audits are conducted to ensure strict compliance with HP’s Standards and Supplier Code of Conduct. These audits serve to enforce the highest standards of ethical practices and verify that suppliers adhere to HP’s guidelines.

  • Vendor Transparency List

    HP promotes transparency by publishing its network of recycling and reuse service providers, aiming to raise social and environmental standards in the electronics industry supply chain.

    Reuse and Recycle Transparency List

  • GPS Tracking Program

    HP utilizes GPS tracking technology as an additional control measure for material flows, effectively preventing landfilling and the exportation of materials to non-developed countries.

Hardware Recycling Process

How our Hardware Recycling Process works

1. Collection

Equipment is collected and transported to HP approved and audited recycling facilities.

2. Sorting

Equipment is sorted, and hazardous components and materials are removed.

3. Shredding

Sorted material is dismantled or shredded into tiny pieces.

4. Separation

Materials are sorted into clean material streams to sell on the global materials market.

What material is accepted

All HP branded IT equipment (*)  (PC, Monitors, Printers), components and assemblies.

*Non-HP branded equipment can be collected for recycle only if it’s being replaced by HP branded equipment as a result of an HP Sales executed deal. Customer may also provide proof of purchase.​

Non-IT equipment (like home appliances). Non-electronic equipment (bags, cases). Stand-alone batteries.

Learn more about our process.

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Hardware Recycling Planet Partners Program Reporting Benefits

Additional paid services are also available.  
Discover all the details and conditions of the program*:

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