- link Copy Url - [ Share on twitter ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Women in Leadership: Frances Edmonds on the End of the ‘Take, Make and Dispose’ Economy https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/245726?absolute=1&via=3blnews "link to 3 B L Media's Twitter") - [ Share on linkedin ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/245726?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Linkedin") - [ Share on facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/245726?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Facebook") - [ email Share via email ](mailto:?subject=Women in Leadership: Frances Edmonds on the End of the ‘Take, Make and Dispose’ Economy&body=ESG News from HP Inc. https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/245726?absolute=1 "Share via email") [Diversity & Inclusion](/CSR-News/diversity-inclusion) # Women in Leadership: Frances Edmonds on the End of the ‘Take, Make and Dispose’ Economy ##### How one 'eco babe' helped HP close the waste loop years before other companies were thinking about it by Sheima Benembarek Apr 17, 2019 4:00 PM ET Campaign: [HP Inc. | Climate Action](/news/campaign/hp-inc-climate-action) ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/Frances-Edmonds-Headshot.jpg) [Originally published on Corporate Knights](https://www.corporateknights.com/voices/sheima-benembarek/frances-edmonds-15543825/) You can’t really miss Frances Edmonds in Canadian corporate sustainability settings. The head of sustainable impact at HP Canada is rather tall and dons a stern confident look, a signature angular platinum bob, and a lilting British accent. She also happens to be one of the industry’s pioneering environment champions. “Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years. If you had told me that when I’d joined HP I wouldn’t have believed it,” Edmonds muses. In her two decades with the company, she’s helped shift the printer-and computer-making IT giant away from the old ‘take, make and dispose’ model towards a more circular one before many other companies put an emphasis on closing the loop on waste. In a world where sustainability departments have often been staffed with marketers and communications experts, Edmonds has always brought a deeper vantage point to the table, thanks, in part, to her roots in environmental science. In her early days of working as a scientist testing water quality for a local UK water authority, Edmonds witnessed firsthand how industrial discharges were polluting natural ecosystems. It sparked an early desire to be part of the solution. [Read more here](https://www.corporateknights.com/voices/sheima-benembarek/frances-edmonds-15543825/) [![HP logo](/sites/default/files/Clients/1200px-HP_logo_2012.svg_.png)](/profiles/hp-inc) ### More from HP Inc. ###### [4 Organizations Changing the Gaming World for Good](/news/4-organizations-changing-gaming-world-good) Oct 19, 2022 12:00 PM ET ###### [How a New Black-Owned Tech Ecosystem Is Taking Shape in Tulsa](/news/how-new-black-owned-tech-ecosystem-taking-shape-tulsa) Oct 12, 2022 6:00 PM ET ###### [Disruptive Innovation Is the Key to Plastics Sustainability](/news/disruptive-innovation-key-plastics-sustainability) Sep 27, 2022 5:20 PM ET ###### [Why Teaching Tech to Teachers Is More Important Than Ever](/news/why-teaching-tech-teachers-more-important-ever) Sep 22, 2022 11:00 AM ET ###### [What Younger Employees Want: The Chance To Do Good in the World](/news/what-younger-employees-want-chance-do-good-world) Sep 21, 2022 11:00 AM ET ###### [Oprah Winfrey Congratulates Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng on Winning New Africa Education Medal](/news/oprah-winfrey-congratulates-professor-mamokgethi-phakeng-winning-new-africa-education-medal) Sep 20, 2022 3:45 PM ET ###### [HP's HBCU Tech Conference Returns With a Focus on Career Success](/news/hps-hbcu-tech-conference-returns-focus-career-success) Sep 15, 2022 5:10 PM ET ###### [HP and the YMCA Team Up To Bridge the Digital Divide](/news/hp-and-ymca-team-bridge-digital-divide) Sep 13, 2022 11:30 AM ET