Thanks! I found this video informative.

You’re not very familiar with 3D printing as a hobby are you.

But yea, it’s probably way worse that the PET you drink your water from.

They can be found at www.PolymerPeculiarities.com

I have, most of those are PET-G

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The big one, Menippus is a little over 500g at that scale.

The orange one is silk pla, currently 8+ months outside. It’s starting to get a little brittle

It should end with Riker and Deanna on the holodeck

It’s going to have some filament waste regardless, but there some things you can to reduce the waste.

Have a purge object, check purge to infill setting, explore reducing the purge filament between material changes.

Most importantly print multiples if possible… It purges the same amount whether you are printing one object, or twenty.

My Mini Factory has a project called Scan the World. Stuff like this can be found there.

I am in California so PST

PET is used in plastic water bottles, PETG is considered a contaminant and typically not part of the recycled waste stream, at least in the US. Same for PLA.

Although as you noted to pelletize plastic a blender would be a good place to start. The question then becomes what do you do with the pellets of plastic?

From my understanding it takes a system like this https://www.filabot.com/products to produce filament from waste plastic. That’s not to say you can’t used the pellets in some other way.

Yes! They do exist. It’s about $20k USD to get a system that will recycle filament.

I’ve also looked at the idea of using pelletized plastic and molds to make other products, like dominos for example.

I am not opposed, assuming there isn’t a severe quality concern. I would rather like a way to recycle my waste plastic. There isn’t really anyone local that will recycle PETG or PLA.

Ideally. Right now, I feel like I am just building a knowledge of art history.

At the moment, sculptures. They are between 200-300g per print. I am kicking off prints twice a day, for three printers.

It’s not without flaws, but I would recommend.

Just know that it adds time and waste to prints.

There is also a nice feature that allows you to automatically switch over to a new roll when the 1st roll runs out. That’s nice.

Overture Rock White PETG

It was either an x1c or p1p. It’s in PETG, spray painted. Dimensions are ~ 250mm tall, 5”x5” base.