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12-04-2015, 07:07 PM #1
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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12-05-2015, 03:57 PM #2
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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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12-05-2015, 10:07 PM #3
Extruder not feeding during print,...
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