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Sep 2015

Sounds interesting, recycling old or failed prints. We already have a box or two filled with those.

How does this work because i can’t find it so quickly how the procedure is and how we have to do or deliver it.

Also we are curious about the cost for this service.

Can you please provide more information. We might be thinking about this service as well.

Mark Heiden

3D&More

A little (size-wise) failure, two Marvins trying to test some new filaments and getting the temperature completely wrong. Cool glitch look anyway :smiley: #REMAKE3D

BTW we are also trying to make something similar in our hackerspace, but also researching with HDPE to recycle bottle tops into 3D prints. Love to see so much people trying to move this around!

Hey Mark,

currently it’s set up as a low key awareness raiser. But you can in fact get in touch with @Jeffrey_1 from Fablab Breda, to ask if you guys can work together in recycling your pile of wasted filament. The Lab is always open and the machines available I guess.

Cheers,

Any plans for this in the bay area? I would love to be able to recycle my supports and so on. Do note that would need the filaments to be pre-sorted like ABS, PLA, XT and so on as most are not cross compatible!

Hi! So great to hear the you would like to become a recycling hub! For now you can promote on your hub page that you are a recycling hub and that you can offer prints from fully recycled filament :wink: You should be able to add recycled filament as an material that you offer.

Also if you would like to do that, it would be awesome if you could collect the waste bins from your community and promote this option on your hub page as well!

We’ll be sure to let you know when other features for recycling hubs come out!

Thanks!

Wow, awesome pictures! Thanks for sending them in :wink: Cool that you’re experimenting with HDPE. I’ve gotten some info from previous research on that, if you’re interested in this I can send it over to you. If so, send me an email at bramh@3dhubs.com and I’ll mail it to you directly!

Yes indeed this is an important requirement, thanks for bringing it up! At the moment we’re focussing all of our attention on our pilot recycling hubs but as soon as we know what will happen afterwards, we will let you know!

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