3D printers have long advocated how 3D printing is a zero to low waste manufacturing process, and with the development of Buzzed Beer 3D print filament, it has opened the doors to all sorts of recycled filament opportunities. By repurposing the by -products made from the production of beer, this boozy filament makes it fun to "go green" with 3D printing and the perfect example of collaborative capitalism. Listen to the podcast here: Buzzed Beer 3D Print Filament and Collaborative … [Read more...]
Easy Going 3D Printing Green
3D printing makes it easy to go green in a number of ways, primarily in product creation. Tom and Tracy Hazzard look at how their past designed products could have been made with far less plastic in a more Earth friendly manner and showing how much plastic is wasted in traditional manufacturing methods. Even the United States Postal Service has a plan for 3D printing reducing their carbon footprint. Combined with more localized manufacturing, it's easy to go green with 3D printing. Listen to … [Read more...]
3D Printed Bird Nest Designs
Happy Earth Day - today we certainly have a different type of project creating 3D printed bird nest designs to bring birds back into the city. This one was hard to come up with because Fridays we usually highlight a design and it's been tough to find one that we thought was really appropriate for Earth Day. Monday we talked about business issues in going green and there are so many ecofriendly attempts going on with filament where we had a couple episodes this week with filament … [Read more...]
3D Print Filament Recycling
This is Earth Week so we are going to talk about something that a listener asked us about 3D print filament recycling. More specifically, they wanted to know if we had known anything about these filament recyclers and wanted to know if it was real and worked well. We thought it was a good fit for Tech Tuesday and for Earth Week. Listen to the podcast here: 3D Print Filament Recycling The reality of 3D print filament recycling is that there are lot of kits and a few small … [Read more...]