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Let’s not let the failures of plastics distract from the reality that metals can be easily and affordably recycled (and have been since the days when every village had a blacksmith).
Paper and cardboard are also capable of being recycled in a reasonable manner using technology that has been around for over a century.
Same with glass (though shipping to a facility that does it often renders it cost prohibitive)
At the time of the concept of plastic recycling, most plastics couldn’t be melted down and re-molded. They just burned when heated.
Now though, most plastics used can be ground down to pellets and reused in a mold.
They’re quite difficult to sort by type though. For the consumer and the recycling company.
Yeah, it’s a niche for the 3d printing machine ecosystem that I am surprised hasnt been more eagerly filled.
A recycling grinder into filament machine shouldn’t be that difficult to make.
The niche isn’t “machine to grind plastic into pellets” which already exists. The niche is “machine that sorts a bucket of random plastic waste into different types, so that when you turn them into pellets they’re only made of one type of plastic, not a random assortment which don’t melt at the same temperature and don’t bond well to one another.”
Inhalation issues maybe?
You can turn PET bottles into a string and use it in your 3d printer.
On a side note, The Lighthouse is so fucking good.
You misspelt weird.
Let us make Man in our own image
Not sure that’s why recycling was invented. I think the messaging from corporations was meant to put the onus on us though.
I ask you to consider researching the origin of recycling plastic in America (US).
Neoliberalism at its finest.
Just burn your plastic like a civilized individual 🙃
how I miss that liberal naivity.
