3d printed recycling
Evonik’s New Nylon 12 3D Printing Material Made from Waste Cooking Oil
Evonik has announced the release of a sustainable PA 12 powder bed fusion (PBF) material, which uses waste cooking oil instead of petroleum as its feedstock. This significant development is…
Nefilatek Wants to Turn Montreal’s Waste into 3D Printing Filament
Nefilatek wants to take waste materials and make 3D printing filament out of them. There are other laudable 3D printing initiatives out there already, including turning weed containers into limbs,…
Fast Things 6: Cradle to Cradle in the Home
The guilt lobotomy that you can perform on your consumer through having them be part of your recycling effort will bear fruit for you. There is, however, a further step…
Green Fab Lab: Using the Fab Lab To 3D Print New Things From Recycled Plastics
Fab labs, growing in popularity around the globe, have a reputation for being smaller forums where the tools are provided for creative manufacturing, often centered around 3D design and 3D…
MELD Manufacturing Receives Grant for Research in Recycling Battlefield Scrap Metal to 3D Print Parts in Combat Theatre
This spring, air data and flow measurement systems and instruments producer Aeroprobe Corporation announced the launch of its new subsidiary, MELD Manufacturing Corporation, for the purposes of continuing the work on its novel Friction…
Locals Find Work at Australian Recycling Center Turning E-Waste into 3D Printers
For a couple of years, my husband had what I jokingly referred to as a “computer graveyard” in the basement of our house. Our old college computers were down there,…
Symbiosis: Voodoo Manufacturing Gets Rid of 600+ Pounds of Plastic Trash by Giving it to Filabot for Recycling
It seems that we discuss one of the downsides of 3D printing more and lately: trash. This does in fact occur mainly by way of plastic—and even just one home…
Project Seafood: Putting Plastic Trash Into an Ultimaker 3D Printer–Rather Than the Sea
Most of us find the statistics on trash–and the way it continues to pile up everywhere–to be horrifying. While recycling is a way of life for many, there is still…
Indigenous Community Protects the Environment While Learning About 3D Printing
In the central North Pacific Ocean, there is a giant floating patch of garbage known, appropriately, as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mostly comprised of plastic waste, it was formed,…
These 3D Printed Bottles & Cans Make Recycling a Bit Simpler
I remember back in grade school, when recycling first started catching on. This was a good 25 years ago, and we were at a time where people finally were beginning…
