HP, Ikea Scooping Up Ocean Plastic to Feed Supply Chain (Corrected)

If you’ve bought a printer cartridge from HP Inc. during the past year, chances are its plastic came from bottles collected on the streets and beaches of Haiti.

Since March 2017, the company has purchased more than 550,000 pounds of ocean-bound plastic, or the equivalent of 12 million plastic bottles, that might otherwise have ended up in the Caribbean Sea.

HP joins a growing list of companies—including furniture retailer Ikea AS, General Motors Co., and Trek Bicycle Corp.—creating supply chains sourced specifically from ocean plastic, and perhaps burnishing their environmental images, as well.

“There is approximately ...