3D Print Recycling Service Interest Survey  

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Good survey.  

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There is a service like this in Tennessee --- I imagine the people that live close to them may find the service useful.  I find the postage to be daunting - they accept 1 lb or more at a time - so shipping large boxes becomes expensive.  Right now I'm more in the "melt it into a brick to make it sink once it hits the ocean in the garbage stream." camp right now.

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I've wanted there to be a filament recycling service to be available, but with the amount of extra work it takes to recycle filament I can't picture it being feasible to recycle plastic any cheaper than making filament from virgin plastic.

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I really wish there were a way to recycle failed prints, test prints, skirt/brim/prime, tag ends of spools, etc.

I phoned our SID's trash hauler and they said to NOT put them in the recycle container, as their plastic recycler does not want 3d print scraps and they have to manually pull them out.

Nobody in our area accepts 3d print scraps, that I know of, anyway.

I thought about a recycle-bot, but I do not have enough scraps to recycle, plus I've heard that recycled filament (both professionally done and homebrew) performs poorly.

I once heard of one firm that would accept 3d print scraps shipped to them, but honestly, the shipping cost is far more than the plastic is worth.

So, I guess I will continue to collect them, usually a filament box full every 1-3 weeks, and thrown them out in the regular trash as landfill fodder.

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I honestly would pay postage to not landfill my filament. I'm pretty sure I could find a decent rate using Pirateship.

What I'd prefer though is to be able to reprocess it at home in a simple reliable way.

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Bought a FilaWinder and FilaStruder together with Precious Plastics grinder.
I want to add a feedback mechanism to measure the thickness and a new winder (not fond of the FilaWinder).
I'm grinding away at my scraps like crazy and plan on recycling my own filament "shortly".

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How is the filastruder?

Posted by: @yveske

Bought a FilaWinder and FilaStruder together with Precious Plastics grinder.
I want to add a feedback mechanism to measure the thickness and a new winder (not fond of the FilaWinder).
I'm grinding away at my scraps like crazy and plan on recycling my own filament "shortly".

 

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@cwbullet It does its job, albeit slowly. I enlarged the nozzle diameter to extrude faster, but haven't tested it yet since.

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@cwbullet Had to rush yesterday, some more explanation below.
In current form the thickness of the extruded filament is function of the temperature and the weight of extrusion hanging from the nozzle.
I had two problems with that, first to get PLA to extrude at the desired thickness I had to drop the temperature way down to the point of no extrusion/very sloooooooooow extrusion (the ABS cleaning pellets worked fine and fast) and secondly every movement (like threading the filament to get wound with the FilaWinder) resulted in kinking the extrusion/changing diameter which made it impossible to get past the bowden tube used at the FilaWinder.
That's why I want to have a pulling mechanism with feedback, everything behind the puller doesn't effect the FilaStuder.

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My main supplier has a program where I can send back both PLA scrap and empty spools. 

I couldn't find an English version but this might be of interest for your project anyway:

https://re-add.com/

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I do not have an extruder but love the filawinder for other purposes.