Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...

Filament-based 3D printers are remarkably wasteful. If you buy a kilogram of filament from your favorite supplier, the odds are that it will come wrapped around a plastic spool weighing about 250 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Lorena James wants to make 3D printing filament out of invasive quagga mussels in Lake Erie. James, who likes to hang out on the beach with friends, hatched the Z Spools idea in an ...

Waste ocean plastic is a huge problem which is currently starting to be tackled with the implementation of large-scale recycling and cleanup solutions. Clean Currents based in Washington DC has ...

An open source project at Michigan Technological University can turn waste plastic into high-quality 3D printing filament. "RepRapable," as it's called, was designed and built by three students and ...

Didyou know that 3D printing generates a lot of plastic waste? This mayseem odd at first, but every enthusiast knows the amount of plasticthat gets wasted before any successful printing is done.

Imagine if you could recycle unsorted household waste like food residue, plastics, paper, cardboard and even dirty diapers into a climate-positive thermoplastic. Now imagine turning that material into ...

How many plastic spoons, knives, and forks do you think we throw away daily? [Stefan] noted that the compostable type is made from PLA, so why shouldn’t you be able to recycle it into 3D printing ...

Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists have ...

An open source project at Michigan Technological University can turn waste plastic into high-quality 3D printing filament. "RepRapable," as it's called, was designed and built by three students and ...