ProtoPrint is Enabling India's Waste Pickers to Earn Money by Making 3D Printer Filam

[Brian_Krassenstein]

ProtoPrint is a company that is allowing Indian waste pickers to cash in on their job. They take plastics that these people retrieve from landfills and use it to make 3D printer filament. This allows the waste pickers to earn up to 15 times more that they would by simply turning the used plastic items in to the government. Hopefully more initiatives like this arise. What do you think? Could this be a solution to the world's waste of slow decomposing plastics?

Read the story at http://3dprint.com/9552/protoprint-3...ilament-waste/

[Roxy]

I'm thinking there is going to be a lot of bad plastic filament showing up on the market soon.

[JRDM]

I hope it works out. I also hope that they can consistently produce clean quality material. Even one jam in ten spools due to contaminants or other fault in the material can be a big turn-off. And that's not easy, given how tiny 3D printer nozzles are.

[Geoff]

I'm thinking there is going to be a lot of bad plastic filament showing up on the market soon.

Ditto.....