Are you interested in using recycled PET plastic for 3D Printing - My post looks at Refil - 90% Recycled PET. @3D_Hubs
Originally shared by Richard Horne
Recycling Plastic for 3D Printing - Why not the default?
In this post I will be looking at Re-filament Refil PET (Recycled plastic for 3D Printing) In a subject I’m very keen to promote, this time we are looking at recycling of plastic into filaments for 3D Printing. This won’t be the only post on this subject. …
recycled materials should be less expensive …
How do deal with polymer degradation in recycled filaments?
Recycling our own materials is too expensive too…
@Chapman_Baetzel Running and extruding at low temperatures, and also adding a percentage of new material into the recycled batch.
@Steven_Cadd Yes, it’s a lot of work to recycle - even more on a small scale. Hopefully things and volumes of recycled plastic’s will increase and so the costs lowered and passed onto the consumer.
If we could just recycle all those plastic spools…
@christophe_malvasio True, but first recycled materials need to be really good quality for printing. A bad recycled material will kill the company regardless of cost. A good but expensive recycled material has a much better chance of longer term success.
We as users need to be prepared to support the recycling so competition can eventually bring down the costs.
@Richard_Horne , some guys down here (Argentina) are making 100% recycled pet filament. Im printing with it right now and it looks quite nice. You can google it (b-pet). Let me know if you want me to put you in contact with them.
I think @LulzBot did some testing of this filament
@Nicolas_Arias Fantastic, thank you. Yes I would really like to get hold of some and check it out. I think PET is the short-medium-term future for 3D Printing plastic’s - plenty to be recycled.
And it mechanical properties totally rule. Im kind of starting to love it.
Im cc you in an email right now.