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HP goes green.(REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES)

HP redesigned its print cartridge packaging for North America to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 37 million pounds in 2007--the equivalent of taking 3,600 cars off the road for one year, HP says.

The emissions savings are the result of smaller, lighter packages that both reduce the total carbon footprint of each cartridge and the truck and freighter transportation traffic required to ship them. Newer packaging also contains more recyclable and recycled content.

"What I see here is smart design," says Greg Norris, Ph.D., environmental life cycle assessment instructor at Harvard University and creator of the Earthster project (www.earthster.org), an open ...

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