I saw some (prominent) people posting in #3DPrinting questioning or even denying the possibility of properly recycling material.

For those in the EU I really recommend trying #Recyclingfabrik at least once, they know their stuff. Occasionally slightly more prone to moisture and obviously not high speed material, but still prints absolutely great with consistent colours.

Picture and video from a print with 0.4mm layer height and a 0.6mm nozzle, works equally well with normal settings though.

@Natanox I'm very sad that they only receive material in their home country. Feels bad to throw away so much PLA.

@apzpins It's an unfortunate problem with parcel services. They do have some sort of service contract with one provider for which they give out the postage notes to customers for free, who probably guarantee to always arrive within a certain time window on specific days. Even accepting customer-paid boxes would cause them to arrive willy-nilly at the factory with different providers some time of some day.

Easiest solution would be for DHL to expand this service EU-wide…

@Natanox Yeah. I'm waiting for the day since I go through a lot of prototypes and other rejects each year.

@Natanox @apzpins

> who probably guarantee to always arrive within a certain time window on specific days

I don't think it's that, since you can literally just go to the factory and drop your filament off in person and they will take it, without special schedule. I've seen them say on their discord that at least part of the reason they're not opening up internationally atm is just capacity - if they did, they'd likely be flooded with much more material than they would be able to process. They also require you to have bought from them at least once in order to send in your stuff for the same reason.

@das_robin @apzpins Damn. At least they don't lack enough raw material. 🤔
Hope they got enough money soon to expand their business then! Better they do it the slower, organic way than by selling out.
@Natanox @apzpins yeah, totally agree! Would hate to have this kind of business of all things go the "go big or implode" route.