![Palletecture yields savings of both material and financial resources
For a kitchen/bath industry show and conference, Crystal Cabinet Works designed and built its own trade show booth using 120 shipping pallets.
“If we’d built this booth out of typical exhibitry, it would have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars,” [Don] Papa says. “But with the reused pallets and internal labor, the materials and construction were practically free.”
(via Waste Watchers — EXHIBITOR magazine)
See also: Other ideas for pallet repurposing here, and convention material upcycling here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsw1ep3xlQ1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
Palletecture yields savings of both material and financial resources
For a kitchen/bath industry show and conference, Crystal Cabinet Works designed and built its own trade show booth using 120 shipping pallets.
“If we’d built this booth out of typical exhibitry, it would have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars,” [Don] Papa says. “But with the reused pallets and internal labor, the materials and construction were practically free.”
(via Waste Watchers — EXHIBITOR magazine)
See also: Other ideas for pallet repurposing here, and convention material upcycling here.
![Repurpose America, a non-profit organization in Las Vegas, finds new uses for non-recyclable materials left behind by conventions, “… a lot of conventions. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority hosted 18,004 such trade shows in 2010.”
Finding new ways to use the discards, [founder/CEO Zachary] Delbex said, means forgetting what it was and looking at what it can be.
Magnetic material has become learning tools for young children. Wood laminate flooring became part of a traveling church play. Hollow Roman-style pillars are now planters in a meditation garden.
Since vinyl signage is a major component to any convention, Repurpose America has a plethora of it. About 4,000 feet have been used to provide a shade canopy at a preschool playground. The colorful vinyl was pieced together but wasn’t bleached of its original verbiage. The result: It promotes an edgy, yes-I’ve-been-recycled kind of message.
(via Repurpose America gives convention materials new life - ReviewJournal.com; photo via IFPE)
Makes me think of the non-profit group in San Antonio that upcycles convention banners into aprons and tote bags. Our post about it is here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmtnls8hEO1qzv12bo1_r1_400.jpg)
Repurpose America, a non-profit organization in Las Vegas, finds new uses for non-recyclable materials left behind by conventions, “… a lot of conventions. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority hosted 18,004 such trade shows in 2010.”
Finding new ways to use the discards, [founder/CEO Zachary] Delbex said, means forgetting what it was and looking at what it can be.
Magnetic material has become learning tools for young children. Wood laminate flooring became part of a traveling church play. Hollow Roman-style pillars are now planters in a meditation garden.
Since vinyl signage is a major component to any convention, Repurpose America has a plethora of it. About 4,000 feet have been used to provide a shade canopy at a preschool playground. The colorful vinyl was pieced together but wasn’t bleached of its original verbiage. The result: It promotes an edgy, yes-I’ve-been-recycled kind of message.
(via Repurpose America gives convention materials new life - ReviewJournal.com; photo via IFPE)
Makes me think of the non-profit group in San Antonio that upcycles convention banners into aprons and tote bags. Our post about it is here.
Upcycling for a cause:
Volunteers in San Antonio, Texas, are turning used vinyl banners — left over from conventions and city events — into tote bags and aprons. So far, more than 250 banners have been diverted from the city’s landfill. Sales of the items support the restoration of a local landmark (not the Alamo, but part of HemisFair Park, in case you’re wondering). (via alamodeus)
Something similar should be done in other cities, no?
