Pragmatic use of priority life cycle assessment elements to help drive product stewardship

Hewlett-Packard, Computer Products Organization (CPO) has launched a product stewardship program with an overall objective to provide products and services that are environmentally sound throughout their life cycle and to conduct operations worldwide in an environmentally responsible manner. A set of metrics or measurement tools was needed to help drive product and process improvements and to provide management an easy method to review and measure progress. The metrics should be easy to use, pragmatic and noncontroversial. The metrics are used to set product specific objectives and provide a method to measure percentage improvement above a baseline. The metrics can be used with product, packaging, consumables, learning products, (manuals, etc.) and manufacturing processes