Who would have imagined e-waste plastics transforming into 3D-printed event furniture?
According to an article in Lenovo Story Hub – Lenovo – the global technology powerhouse, collaborated with Aectual, the Netherlands-based leader in 3D printing for architecture and interior design, to bring the concepts of asset recovery and circularity to life.
Who would have imagined e-waste plastics transforming into 3D-printed event furniture?
The collaboration goes much deeper than recycling e-waste plastics from servers, laptops, or mobile phones. Lenovo workstations have powered innovative construction processes and helped create more sustainable trade show experiences.
Aectual and Lenovo have pushed each other to give recovered materials a new life, create something surprising, and prioritise sustainability, which is one of our core values.
The Aectual process, which prioritises circularity, can take back a product after use, shred the material, and reuse it in new 3D-printed products up to seven times.
The poufs at Lenovo Tech World offer one small example of the type of recycling that can be possible through solutions like Lenovo’s Asset Recovery Services (ARS), an end-to-end solution to minimize e-waste through secure device lifecycle management. Since 2005, Lenovo has processed nearly 800 million pounds of Lenovo-owned and customer-returned computer equipment.
Asset recovery is one piece of a wider investment in sustainability, including Lenovo’s commitment to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. With ongoing changes from supply chain operations to energy generation, it’s rare to see something so tangible—and certainly so sittable—as the Tech World poufs.
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