With a number of brands calling on for more sustainable products, they explore different ways on how they can utilize recycled materials on their products while minimizing the use of new plastic materials. Acer and its Earthion platform is exploring a new kind of sustainability with the Aspire Vero.

As the first product under Earthion, the Aspire Vero makes use of recyclable products beyond recycling paper pulp for packaging. With the Aspire Vero, post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic is used through the laptop’s chassis and keyboard caps. As for the packaging, its box is made from 80-85% recycled paper pulp, while paper sleeves made from the same recycled pulp is used to protect the power adapter.

Unique touches to the Aspire Vero is the inverted design of the R and E on the keycaps, which is said to echo the message of “reduce, reuse, and recycle”. Breaking away from the recent trends of laptops being barely repairable, the Aspire Vero is said to be easy to repair an upgrade with its design.

While Acer did not fully disclose the specs of the Aspire Vero, it is said to be configurable with up to a Core i7 processor with Iris Xe integrated graphics, along with support for up to 1TB of SSD storage. For ports, the renders show that it will have two USB-A 3.2 ports, a USB-C 3.2 port, a full-size HDMI port, headphone, jack, Ethernet port, and a DC-In port for the power adapter.

Acer hopes to attain its goal of using 100% renewable energy by 2035 and reduce its overall carbon footprint across its whole portfolio, and the Aspire Vero is a proof of concept that laptops that are made with sustainable materials is possible. According to Acer, it has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 60% in 2020, so it is more or less in pace with its end goal come 2035.