Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...

Discover an inspiring DIY project that turns discarded plastic bottles into 3D printer filament and miniature soda bottles.

In recent years, 3D printing has helped transform the face of manufacturing, leading some to call the technology a sign of the Third Industrial Revolution. Consumer-level printers are capable of ...

Discover the creative journey of transforming a plastic soda bottle into high-quality 3D printer filament. Watch as we ...

The plastic extrusion robot, developed by Vermont Technical College student Tyler McNaney, allows you to recycle all of that plastic to make usable 3D printing filament. An all-in-one tool, the ...

Filament-based 3D printers are remarkably wasteful. If you buy a kilogram of filament from your favorite supplier, the odds are that it will come wrapped around a plastic spool weighing about 250 ...

Here’s another project with the worthy ultimate aim of repurposing household plastic waste as useful 3D filament for making new stuff with your home 3D printer. Both the Strooder and the Filabot are ...

Filament is to 3D printers what gasoline is to cars. You need it in order to run your machine; you can get it from a variety of different places; and it’s available in various levels of quality. Not ...

An open source project at Michigan Technological University can turn waste plastic into high-quality 3D printing filament. "RepRapable," as it's called, was designed and built by three students and ...

As we know, 3D printers make objects but eliminate the waste and high tooling costs of traditional manufacturing. Because the machines print parts off of CAD files, even weird or impossible-to-find ...

3D printing filament is a kind of thermoplastic material that can serve as the raw feedstock of any fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer or a fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printer. They ...