UC Berkeley Creates Campus Filament Recycling System

At the University of California Berkeley, nearly 600 pounds of plastic trash is generated every year - and while there are many contributing factors like plastic bottles, the school's 100 3D printers have definitely raised the amount. While the university has done some wonderful things with its printers, the unfortunate flip side is that the garbage bins quickly fill up with failed prints and scraps of unused filament. Three students are now leading an effort to create an organized, campus-wide recycling system for 3D printer waste. Undergraduates Nicole Panditi, a mechanical engineering student, and Scott Silva, an environmental sciences student, along with PhD student Mickey Clemon, are leading the 3D Printer Filament Reclamation Project with help from the Cal Zero Waste facility. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/165312/berkeley-recycling-filament/

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