Hewlett-Packard Backs African Recycling Research
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H-P is funding a project to investigate how electronic waste can be disposed of in a safer and more environmentally friendly way.
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HP now uses recycled plastics to produce its inkjet printer cartridges.
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Hewlett-Packard introduced the âclosed loopâ process that manufactures new printer cartridges from recycled cartridges that are separated and rebuilt from scratch.
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(InfoWorld) - Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya. Delegates from about 120 governments gathered in Nairobi on Monday to begin week-long talks on how to reduce the use of toxic substances, such as lead, cadmium and mercury, found in PCs and cell phones, and to promote programs for recycling and re-using as many components as possible. The U.N. estimates that up to 50 million metric tons of "e-waste" are generated worldwide every year, representing more than 5 percent of all municipal solid waste. In the U.S. alone, as many as 20 million PCs are thrown out every year. A good chunk of that waste ends up in Africa and other developing countries, according to the U.N. Every month, more than 100,000 disregarded computers are entering the Nigerian port of Lagos alone, said U.N. Under-Secretary General Achim Steiner in a speech. Local experts estimate that up to 75 percent of the used PCs, TVs and phones sent from developed countries are unusable and end up in the landfills of developing countries, where the items are often burned, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals. On the table at this week's meeting are proposals to encourage manufacturers to take more responsibility for their products, from the design stage through the supply chain to final disposal. In a speech, Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto, executive secretary of the Basel Convention, which monitors hazardous waste, pointed to a partnership with several mobile phone manufacturers and operators, including Nokia Corp, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Vodafone Group PLC to develop programs for recycling and re-using the millions of mobile phones now sold worldwide every year.
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By Nic Fildes  The drive to make computers more environmentally friendly has been given an extra boost after the technology giants Google and Intel joined the rush to prove their green credentials.   The move was widely welcomed by environmental groups.
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MSA line gets makeover Hewlett-Packard has reworked its low-end storage line to make some new systems more virtualization friendly for SMBs and remote offices.â¦
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Dutch consumers are learning about the importance of recycling batteries via a computer game distributed by email, the firm running the programme said on Thursday.
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HP has a new process in place to recycle its used inkjet printer cartridges.
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Researchers at the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, UK, along with PVAXX Research &amp; Development, have devised a way to recycle discarded mobile telephones.
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Computer users are being asked to donate their unused processor power to help solve social and environmental research problems. The IBM-backed project, called World Community Grid, aims to put the untapped
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HP and Dell, which together sell more than half the country's PCs, get kudos for using more eco-friendly components and recycling their products when consumers discard them. By the Associated Press.
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Sets 'carbon footprint challenge' for employees Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday that it would be setting a "carbon footprint challenge" for its 4,000 employees in Ireland to help make the company greener.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ has developed technology at its lab in Bangalore, India,Â that secures paper documents against fraud and integrates paper documents with electronic processes by allowing paper to be used as a medium for data transfer. Paper documents will never go away, and this is not unique to India, said S. Ramani, director for science and technology, at HP Labs India on Thursday. The requirement to authenticate paper documents can hamper the velocity of business, Ramani said. Very often a paper document, like a college transcript or a driving license, has to be sent back to the issuing authority for authentication or to ensure that there has been no change in status after the document was issued, he added. HP Labs India has instead developed technology it calls Trusted Hardcopy that embeds information contained in the paper document in a 2D (two-dimensional) barcode printed at the back of the paper document. Using software developed by the lab, the barcode can be read by a standard scanner, and the information verified online on a Web site set up by the authority issuing the paper document, or an independent verification agency. In a pilot program that HP Labs India is running with the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) students graduating from the institute were issued transcripts with the barcodes printed on them. âOur software is integrated with the database, so that whenever a mark sheet is printed from the database, the software issues a barcode which is inserted into it,â said K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, department director at the lab. The certificates issued by IIIT-B can be now scanned and verified for their authenticity on an institute Web site. If the document or the barcode has been tampered with, this will be revealed when it is compared with the document stored on the instituteâs database, Ramani said. Using the 2D barcode also removes the need to manually input the data from paper documents into an electronic system, as the data can be read from the barcode printed on the paper. âBy embedding the information from the paper document in the barcode, we are preventing information in paper documents from getting disconnected from the rest of the system,â Anjaneyulu said. The new technology is effectively ânetworking the paper world," he added. The technology can also be used by agencies like the government to issue authenticated documents online. The document with the barcode can be then printed by the person requesting the document, Ramani said. HPâs business units are interested in commercializing Trusted Hardcopy, Ramani said. HP Labs India is also working on new applications of the technology such as using mobile phones with built-in cameras to take a snap of a barcode, for example on a driver's license, and transmitting the image on the mobile service channel for verification and updating. As part of HP Labs India's research in the area of pen-based interfaces, the lab has developed a stylus sensitive touch-pad, called the âgesture-based keyboard,â that enables users to enter text in the Devnagri script used in many Indian languages, using a combination of tapping and gestures.
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HP, at its Technology Forum in Las Vegas, said it is developing storage technology that more accurately assigns storage capacity as needed in an enterprise.
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Hewlett-Packard has built a 70,000-square-foot data center in Bangalore that it is powering with diesel fuel. But it hopes to reduce energy costs by using a sensor-based cooling technology.
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NOVEMBER 12, 2004  - In a deal aimed at helping corporate IT decision-makers feel more comfortable about moving to open-source software offerings, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Africa urged to support agricultural research   JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Xinhua) - African countries have been urged to pledge more financial supports to agricultural research in order to boost agricultural production, secure food supply and contribute to development.