Hi all, I am looking at an ever-increasing pile of used filament spools of different materials. Some are ABS, some are PET, some are “undefined”. I have no idea what to do with these as the Dutch plastic recyling doesn’t include these materials apart from PET. Anyone have a solution? This seems really wasteful.
Wow, @neep, I can’t believe it’s been 3 months already and you didn’t find a solution for your recycling problem! Let me reach out to some of the recycling Hubs I know and I’ll get back to you. We’ll get to the bottom of this
I have been in touch with one other hub in Germany who offered me to send it over. This I can do but it’s not really sustainable in the long run. I also had a response from some Dutch people from InnoCircle but they didn’t want my filament as it’s “mixed” and consumer grade from China. So I am still stuck with it all. There must be hundreds if not thousands of people in NL with the same problem by now.
Anyway this thread I started about the SPOOLS, not about the filament itself. But it’s the same problem, essentially…
Hi Neep, we (fila-cycle.co.uk 67) have been collecting empty spools and reusing them. However, we are in the UK and thus it is not cost effective for you to send over your spools to us - or at least I suspect it is not.
We collect from retailers around the UK, then we re-spool file our 100% recycled filaments !
Spools become circular products
Scott
Very good initiative, is this something 3Dhubs can pickup or actualy the suppliers should do this
Good marketingtool i think!
Or collect and sell them and do something for area’s who suffer the most from climate change!!
Hey Esther, thanks for reaching out…
Please contact me on : scott.Knowles@objectform.co.uk
