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What's your filament usage rate? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Rutty@sh.itjust.works to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Mine is apparently 10kg a week

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[–] TimPostma@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Rutty correction PET & PETG is commonly used in water bottles in Canada if i am wrong you can correct me & i will do re-evaluation

[–] Rutty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PET is used in plastic water bottles, PETG is considered a contaminant and typically not part of the recycled waste stream, at least in the US. Same for PLA.

Although as you noted to pelletize plastic a blender would be a good place to start. The question then becomes what do you do with the pellets of plastic?

From my understanding it takes a system like this https://www.filabot.com/products to produce filament from waste plastic. That’s not to say you can’t used the pellets in some other way.

[–] TimPostma@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Rutty kind Sir i kindly ask which time zone are you from i am Canadian from the eastern time zone

[–] Rutty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I am in California so PST