my #3Dprinting jar of shame is overflowing. what should I do with the contents?
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Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 18:23:24 JST Trammell Hudson -
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SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 18:23:22 JST SuperDicq @th@social.v.st I just put all my failed 3D prints into the plastic recycling bin
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 15:53:07 JST 翠星石 @SuperDicq >into the plastic recycling bin
Unless that's specifically for ABS plastic (or PLC), that cannot be recycled and will end up in landfill or incinerated.
Plastic is only recyclable when kilograms or tons of the same type is sorted into batches. -
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SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 16:48:49 JST SuperDicq @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Our plastic recycling bin is for all kinds of plastics like PET, PVC, HDPE, LDPE, etc. (I usually 3D print using PLA and PET, never ABS)
Hard plastics, as we call them, like ABS are actually excluded from our plastic recycling bin. This bin is meant for mostly for single use packaging material.
You are indeed correct that plastics are only recyclable if they are sorted by type, but we throw all of them into the same bin.
We can do this because we grind our collected plastics into small pallets and then the individual pallets get sorted into the different types by a really fast machine that is able to sort the plastic pallets using lasers.
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