Hewlett-Packard is supporting a project in Kenya, the recycled computer parts. Behind the "East African computer recycling" (EACR) is the Irish voluntary organization Camara Education. This teaches the use of modern technology people in remote and disadvantaged communities in Africa. EACR will open later this year 2010, Kenya's first recycling center for electronic computer waste. The goal is a healthier, safer management, improvement of standards in the recycling and the establishment of a local, sustainable IT recycling industry.

The recycling center receives for waste IT equipment from old schools, of businesses, from the administration and by private individuals. The IT rubbish to health, safety and environmental standards separately for the HP monitors: Still working devices are processed for reuse, broken computer broken, and various components such as plastic and metal to separate. Parts of a complex recycling process must go through to institutions which have the necessary technology for it. The long-term goal is to 20 percent of Kenya's IT waste in this system to exploit.

Precise information on the nature or amount of his support has not been HP. According to the company projects the company operates in more than 52 such countries. As part of the 1987 program, launched "HP Planet Partners return and recycling"worldwide have been 650,000 tons of recycled waste-IT. The original goal was to 900,000 tons of hardware and HP Printer Cartridges come in late 2010.