It’s also not more ecologically friendly – you’ve gotta use near 80% virgin material with 20% regrind for a good quality product. All you’re doing is bringing its production into your house on a smaller, more inefficient scale.
Comment on Recycling 3D Prints and Waste Plastic into Filament (PET & PLA) by Dr D Flo
sj_zero 11 months ago
tbf, you wouldn't do this because it's cheaper, you'd do it because it's more ecologically friendly and it helps make your 3d printer a bit more sustainable.
But at 20 bucks for a spool of thread, you won't be coming out ahead economically by recycling, I agree.
thantik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The video uses 50/50, not 80/20
sj_zero 11 months ago
ngl, I've never tried it and I doubt I'm about to start, so prints go into the recycle bin so they can get dumped in the landfill with the rest of the recycling.
But at the very least, it's a better practice to use PLA as your main choice.
thantik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Strangely enough, ABS is better for the environment, as it’s one of the few actual materials that get recycled…
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, the ecologically friendly option is to send it to the recycling.
sj_zero 11 months ago
Assuming it's recycled instead of sent to a landfill.
Once you find out about how the business of recycling works that's often not such a certain assumption.
SirHery@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In Germany there is a company that specifically lets you send in oly pla and pet and the sells it. You even get a credit based on how sortet your used Filament is. recyclingfabrik.com
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
3D printing waste is a clean waste. It doesn’t have food leftovers on it, weird paint or anything else which will render it unrecyclable. Also PLA just goes into a composter.
sj_zero 11 months ago
Great argument. Bit of a problem though: you don't need to convince me or the fediverse. You need to convince plastic recyclers not to just take the strange plastic like thing that isn't labeled and isn't common and just send it to the landfill.
The journey of recycling doesn't end the moment that a potentially recyclable object ends up in your recycle bin. In order to be recycled, A bunch of things need to go right, and if they don't then your "recycling" just enters the local landfill, if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, your "recycling" will end up in a cargo container on its way to a landfill in some third world country somewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisis
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re naive if you think that “recycling” hasn’t been a complete smokescreen for decades, FFS.
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not all recycling is the same.
dawnerd@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’d be fun to mess around with if it wasn’t 12-18k for the setup.
sj_zero 11 months ago
Yikes. That's a loooooootta filament.