Growth in 3D printing marches on at an annual 26% clip. While new printers keep increasing the print speeds and range of materials that can be used, data on recycling these materials has been sparse.

It should be apparent to most people that while plastics are great to design with, they’re hard on the environment. While the U.S. has started recycling programs, the amount of plastic produced every ...

This video is part 4 of my attempt to build an affordable 3D printer filament recycling setup. I aim to create a DIY, at-home ...

Concept: The US-based polyolefins and biopolymer producing company Braskem has partnered with Vartega, a leading recycler of advanced materials to launch a 3D printing filament recycling program. The ...

Ford is teaming up with HP to reuse spent 3D printed powders and parts, closing the loop and turning them into injection molded vehicle parts – an industry first, it is claimed. Ford says the ...

NASA is paying big bucks to experiment with plastics recycling on the International Space Station. The space agency recently inked a deal with Firmamentum, a division of Tethers Unlimited, that is ...

VALPARAISO — Tubes filled with multicolored plastic pellets fill the shelf in Adam Johnson's kitchen. A large motor is perched on a table by the back door and, across from it, sits a peculiar metal ...

Slowly but surely, car companies are beginning to make themselves more sustainable. We most often hear about this movement in the context of using clean energy to power the production lines and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The International Space Station’s first 3D ...

For the first time in the US, scientists have used 3D printing to scale up the recycling of the precursors of an important medical isotope. Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) is an important medical isotope used ...