This document discusses HP's efforts to implement circular economy practices in its IT industry. It outlines HP's circular economy strategy of shifting to service models, reducing waste, and extending product lifespans. HP is pursuing closed-loop recycling programs, service-based models like Instant Ink that reduce product footprints, and advances in 3D printing that could dematerialize production. Challenges to scaling circular solutions include legislative barriers, maintaining recycled material quality, customer adoption, retailer impacts, and disruptions to existing business models.
2. AGENDA
• Circular economy at HP
• 3 areas of propelling a more circular economy
• Scaling the strategy in core, growth and future business
• Learnings during scaling circular solutions
5. Propelling a more
circular economy
Closed-loop processes
improve product end-of-life options
Service-based models
reduce product footprints
3D printing will dematerialize and
democratize how the world creates
and delivers goods and services
7. Advancing responsible
recycling in Haiti
Providing workers with educational,
training, and healthcare
opportunities
Purchasing recycled PET plastic to
manufacture new HP print cartridges
Driving a more inclusive circular
economy by opening up markets for
collected plastic
8. Propelling a more
circular economy
Closed-loop processes
improve product end-of-life options
Service-based models
reduce product footprints
3D printing will dematerialize and
democratize how the world creates
and delivers goods and services
9. Ensure users always have ink:
improved recycling, massive waste
reductions
Connected printers mean that:
• Ink replacement cartridges automatically
delivered when printer is running low on ink
• Used cartridges returned to HP and fed directly
into “closed loop” recycling program
• Enables customers to save up to 50% on ink
• Printers generate up to 57% less waste per printed
page than conventional business models
Instant Ink: subscription
services enabled by Internet
of Things
11. Propelling a more
circular economy
Closed-loop processes
improve product end-of-life options
Service-based models
reduce product footprints
3D printing will dematerialize and
democratize how the world creates
and delivers goods and services
13. 3D Printing will reinvent supply chains
Case study: Automotive industry
14. How it works today
Kirstie’s car
Part designed &
packaged
Manufactured
Warehoused ?
15. 3D Printing can save energy, eliminate waste, and reduce carbon footprints
Part
designed
HP 3D Printer located in
Henley prints the part
Kirstie’s car
16. Rethinking repair - keep products out of landfill and in use longer
3D allows manufacturing on demand of an infinite inventory of spares, electronically
eSpares.com carries over 9600 different oven knobs!“We are no longer able to supply spare parts, or
carry out service or repairs for several models.”
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HP: Scaling the circular economy
Mega-trends are converging: IoT, digital
intelligence, 3D printing, circular economy,
resource constraints, supply chain transparency.
Reverse cycles – “closed loop” recycling,
reuse and refurbishment
New business models – service-based
solutions for all customers, everywhere
Breakthrough innovation – disrupting global
supply chains and manufacturing
CORE
FUTURE
GROWTH
18. What did we learn?
Challenges HP faced scaling circular solutions
•Legislative barriers:
government policy and regulation not always kept pace with circular economy requirements, e.g. in EU
all electronics considered waste
-> difficult to move across borders, consolidate repair
•Material quality:
technical performance of recycled material is key to maintain customer confidence
-> prerequisites: control of reverse logistics routes and development of pure material streams
•Customer take-up: consumer mind-shift needed
•Retailer impacts: different incentive structures needed for shift to product as a service
•Disruptive innovation:
new business models can destroy or cannibalise a company‘s existing value proposition
_new capabilities and investments often needed
_innovations may be not as or more profitable for a time