Blog posts tagged with 'sustainable 3d printing'

You have a water bottle in your hand. You drank its contents, threw the bottle in the recycling bin. A few weeks later, the same plastic is being used as filament in your 3D printer. Or crops harvested from a corn field are processed in a laboratory and become PLA filament. Even plastic waste floating in the ocean is collected and transformed into new 3D printing material.

3D printing is often marketed as a "green" and "sustainable" technology. No material waste, only as much production as needed, local production supported. But is reality that simple? Is a PLA filament spool more eco-friendly, or traditional injection molding?