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Along with keeping the IT shop afloat technically, in a budget-friendly manner, there’s often another boardroom-generated imperative for CIOs: sustainability.

Socially-responsible organizations not only help themselves and society, they win Brownie points from customers.

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Printing is one area in which we make an environmental impact, for ill or for good. Let’s face it, printing can be wasteful. However, since it’s not going away in the near future, recycling of used paper and consumables can lessen its adverse effects. And Hewlett-Packard Co. is at the forefront with its closed loop recycling.

With closed loop recycling, the product that you buy, use, and then return to HP ends up coming back to you in the form of new products. It recently announced that over 75 percent of its inkjet cartridges and 24 percent of its LaserJet toner cartridges are built using the process.

We recently visited one of HP’s four Irish facilities at Liffey Park, near Dublin, to see the final part of the process – the manufacturing of new ink cartridges.