Project Seafood - 3D Print With Plastic Waste That Would Otherwise Be in the Ocean

Swiss couple Fabian Wyss and Jennifer Gadient, the founders of Project Seafood, have made recycling into a wonderful and inspirational journey--literally. Traveling the Mediterranean coastline, they packed up their plastics shredder, extruder, and super durable Ultimaker Original 3D Printer. Picking up trash from all the beaches, they used it to make unique items and then gave each piece a unique geographic stamp indicating where it came from. Aside from being a great advertisement for the toughness and versatility of the Ultimaker, they are an inspiration in doing their part not only to recycle, but to prevent as much plastic as possible from entering the oceans. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/109233/project-se...plastic-trash/
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This certainly sounds well-meaning and all, but it has to be incredibly labor-intensive. Just sorting and cleaning the plastic waste is a huge chore, not to mention making it into filament, which it's hard to believe really works very well. Even new filament has problems with water absorbtion that causes print failures; I can only imagine how poorly this stuff behaves.

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Originally Posted by awerby

Even new filament has problems with water absorbtion that causes print failures; I can only imagine how poorly this stuff behaves.

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Take a look at the filament in the lower left hand corner of the picture. It is not uniform in size. And it has big holes in it. The little robot on the print bed has 4mm layers and it is still de-laminating.