Another quickie from last night. I also caught up with Bruno Zago from HP, who was showing off the company's rad printer with a bioplastic case basically made from corn (pictured). It can compost down in 7-8 weeks. I think it's a beautiful bit of design, though sadly it's not quite ready to buy: when Bruno took it to Singapore to show the concept off, sultry temperatures caused it to warp.
Still, other mundane green stuff is happening at HP, such as the gradual switch from expanded polystyrene to paper pulp for the packaging inside its product boxes, and improvements in the amount of standby power gobbled by its printers.
The PC giant's also got a new printer with more steel than plastic in its case, which should make more of it reclaimable at the recycling stage (I'll post an update with the model no shortly). HP is - like its rivals - big into 'environmental sustainably' at a corporate level. Check out its eco page here.
If all this green gadget talk is getting you hot under your metaphorical collar, have a listen to tomorrow's Stuff Magazine podcast for interviews with Bruno and a man called Habib who digs the wonderful concept of active disassembly.
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Didn't Fujitzu launch a bio-plastic laptop earlier this year?
Posted by: Simon Jones | July 14, 2006 at 02:29 AM