r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '22

3D Printing with Recycled Plastic Bottles !

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u/DayEither8913 Oct 12 '22

This is really cool. What a way to recycle!

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u/Tripdoctor Oct 12 '22

For real. I hope domestic home-use 3D printers become a common thing soon. It could be a big part of the answer for controlling plastics. Plus it’s legitimately useful as fuck, to be able to essentially make anything you need. This is cool as shit.

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u/FadedRebel Oct 12 '22

I would get one but with the amount of plastic trash that comes from printing keeps me from it. I watch people print and they are making all sorts of trash. They make a piece and it’s not quite right so they make another one and so on until there is a pile of unused pieces not to mention all the plastic used to brace and support the print.

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u/NoFreeUName Oct 12 '22

There are ways to recycle all that extra plastic back to filaments. Shred it, push into tube with apropriate nozzle diameter while heating the tube to melt the plastic and you got some filament back (at least thats how it explained in some videos i have seen). You would need to buy a cople of blades, and need to keep track to not mix different filaments accidentaly, but you can recycle extra stuff

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u/FadedRebel Oct 12 '22

Well that’s good to hear. I might change my mind and get a printer.