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UNSW SMaRT Centre Founder and Director Professor Veena Sahajwalla sits down with Sky News Australia to discuss hard plastic rubbish from computers and other electronics being transformed into usable stock for the booming 3D printing sector.
Her comments come as a new partnership begins between UNSW SMaRT Centre and Renew IT, an IT asset management firm using SMaRT's first commercially-run Plastics Filament MICROfactorieTM.
“When they reach the end of life, forms of obsolete equipment, these kinds of equipment will inevitably end up in landfill,” she said.