Corporate social responsibility recycle

Hewlett-Packard (HP). A leader in corporate social responsibility is Hewlett-Packard. HP was fonnded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Fiscal year 2011 revennes were 127 billion. The company operates in 187 conntries and has championed CSR strategies as an important corporate initiative since 2005. HP reached its carbon rednction goals one year early—cutting it by 25 percent compared with 2005 levels—and is now looking formore cuts. In 2010, the company recycled 1.95 billion pounds (884,000 tons) of electronic prodncts and snpplies. In total, more than 2.36 billion ponnds (1.07 million tons) of electronic products and supplies have been recovered and either reused (electronic products) or recycled (electronic products and supplies) by HP since 1987. The company has focused on reuse, recycling 410 million pounds (186,000 tons) in 2010. 

Sustainable procurement includes the economic, environmental, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) dimensions. CSR aspects of sourcing often deals with assuring ethically sound relationships, establishing codes of conduct, and human rights. Environmental aspects facilitate recycling, reuse, reduction of toxicity, and reduction of resource use. In many cases, as in reduced resource use, sustainable practices can, in fact, decrease the cost in the supply chain. These issues are discussed at length in Chap. 9. 

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