Recycle Abs Plastic 3d Printer

Considering that plastic is perhaps the number one waste material that negatively impacts our environment learning how to recycle 3d printer filament can reduce the impact the 3d printer plastic has on the environment in general.

Recycle abs plastic 3d printer.

Feed your 3d printer recycled plastic. Support me patreon. Clearly 3d printing produces a lot of waste plastic. In fact just to get your 3d printer abs ready you have to upgrade to a heated bed an essential component of a successful print invest in good adhesive for the bed and build or buy an enclosure.

Sam van til and nout kooij the founders of vanplestik found a way to make a use out of plastic waste. Under the astm international resin identifier codes both are classified as type 7 or other which are not typically processed by municipal programs so unfortunately you can t just throw your failed prints into the recycling bin. This is one problem with recycling 3d printed plastics as most community recycling programs do not accept unmarked plastics. The protocycler recycles plastic and turns it into filament for 3 d printers.

The easiest way to recycle 3d printed objects made of abs pla or nylon is to contact your local materials recovery facility mrf and ask if they will take them. If your recycling company supports abs and requires sorting your abs plastic should typically be placed in the bin marked other so it doesn t get mixed in with other plastics by mistake. Their start up developed a 3d printer see the picture above using filament which is made of 100 recycled plastic. Let me show you how i extruded my own material with the filastruder.

Another possibility is to recycle your 3d prints into more 3d printing filament with the filabot or filastruder. But change could be in the cards. So three engineering physics students at the university of british columbia in canada have invented the protocycler a device that can grind up all kinds of waste plastic into a beautiful clean spool of plastic filament that can be used in a 3d printer. Not sure what material your object is made of.

So they built a machine that could recycle it back into usable form. I recycled my old pla prints and made new filament out of it.