Home #3dprinting is fun. I like making fun things like #ttrpg minis, and useful things, like a spice rack organizer.
I like how they fit into #solarpunk story telling.
But until/unless one can recycle and more importantly, produce filament, it's still a centralized technology based on plastic.
I've only worked with basic PLA, and read a bit about PETG & the differences.
Are there any filament technologies that are recyclable / reusable or that can be produced locally from raw materials?
This is a main reason why I haven't gone for 3D printing.
When I was growing up, schools didn't teach "recycle." They taught "reduce, reuse, recycle", in that order. Add the conservationism I learned in the Boy Scouts (and growing up fishing and hunting) and it made me into somebody who considers the environment maybe more than others.
3D printing as a whole does not accomplish or promote reduction or reuse of materials. In my view it seems to promote the opposite.
Many of the things I see which are 3D printed could be made out of wood, using hand tools and simple nails or screws, or metal, using hand tools with enough patience, or durable machine tools. The tools and materials will eventually rot or rust and safely go back to the land when they are no longer needed.
3D printing requires use of things made of materials that don't break down easily, if at all, and are toxic to the land while they do break down.
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