Dimension Polymers crowdfunded their sustainable 3D printer filament. Image: Dimension Polymers By 2020, there will be more than 250 million pounds of plastic produced by 3D printers. Add that to the ...

3D printing promises to revolutionize the way people build, create and use objects. But right now, the technology is still more expensive than most people are willing to pay, and the printing process ...

While many view 3D printing as the future of fabrication, the technique uses a lot of plastic. One company, however, is trying to cut down on just how much plastic it uses. The company is called 3D ...

Typical recycling involves sending off your old cans, bottles, boxes and papers to be re-purposed somewhere far away, sight unseen. Terracycle and 3D Brooklyn allow you to determine what gets made ...

A new company called Refil is making Refilament, a plastic filament for 3D printers from recycled plastic products, including automotive dashboards. Refil was founded by the Rotterdam-based design ...

Mechanical engineer Anthony Prato has developed a new recycled 3D printing filament which is launched by Kickstarter this week to raise the funds required to take the plastic filament into large-scale ...

3-D printing is a potentially revolutionary technology. It enables manufacturing from anywhere by anyone with access to a printer. With 3-D printers, businesses can rapidly prototype, consumers can ...

3D printers searching for a 100% recycled 3D printing filament may be interested in Nefilatek created by mechanical engineer Bastien lepoutre based in Montréal, Canada. The first filament developed by ...

The fundamental problem with multi-color 3D printing using a single hotend is that they poop an awful lot. Every time they change filaments, they’ve got to purge the single nozzle, which results in a ...