In Germany, about 5.6 million tons of plastic packaging are thrown away every year after just one use. Sadly, less than a ...

Clear acrylic panels have long been a mainstay of 3D printer enclosure designs ... An alternative material worth looking at is corrugated plastic (also known by its trade name coroplast) which ...

"If this [waste-made plastic] can now be fed into a 3D printer, can you actually print a whole range of products?" she said. One such product already made are "clamps" — or blocks — used in ...

3D printing is a popular process ... After the main extruder lays down each layer of clear PLA plastic, the print is then moved under the inkjet head, which lays down colored inks before the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, offers a viable method for constructing large-scale plastic scintillator detectors used in particle physics. A new ...

Fraunhofer recycles packaging waste into 3D printing material with purity levels of more than 99.8% - suitable for ...