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This is why thos who make plastic products shoul be held to greater account... Wht saddens me, and I seem to see lit. nobodoy talking about is our glamourisizi

This is why thos who make plastic products shoul be held to greater account... Wht saddens me, and I seem to see lit. nobodoy talking about is our glamourisizing 3d plastics printing of billions of arbitrary objects - and where these plastics will end up in the ecos... 3d printers (I have an ender3) should be urged to have a recycling platform. Personally - I want a 3d recycling machine which will shred HDPE, melt it to pellets and make a filiment extrusion for the 3d printer. We should have the 3d printing community building recycling stations from 3d filiment and object fails etc... and try to close the loop as much as possible. (lookng at you cosplayers of microplastic contamination for internet points)

datadrivenangel 3y ago
You can build or buy a filament recycling machine. The issue is that it costs more than a 3D printer, and often times the filament is not as good later, so you end up spending time and energy recycling when it would be less time and energy to create new filament. It would probably be better to put that time and money into insulating your house and growing flowers for local birds and bees.
progman32 3y ago
Unfortunately there isn't a true, affordable (for an individual or small group) circular solution that I've found. I've taken to gathering all my scraps in a bucket (not mixing plastic types) then occasionally having a "recycling day" to melt them down into bars, rods, or sheets, which are then used for other things using more traditional manufacturing techniques. I made some very pretty swirly vases on the lathe, for example. It's not ideal.