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Where to Recycle Filament? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a huge bag of filament waste. Where should I send this? I know it is only commercially recyclable in like very specific cases so stuff like PLA will almost never be recycled. However, I do hear of companies accepting filament and they sell back the rolls and stuff. I'm not looking to make a profit or anything, just gotta get this off of me and I want the most sustainable way to do so.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Melt it low temp into some sort of bowl mould.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, I melted it down and have about 70 bowls. Now what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Give to a friend / colleague, then make a pen holders, etc.

Then, up your prep/calibration time to reduce wastage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Perhaps not helpful for most people, but Add:North offers recycling for PLA which you have bought from them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

You can look here might find a place near you that takes plastic https://community.preciousplastic.com/map I've been looking at getting something like this to recycle my own filament. https://felfil.com/?v=5ea34fa833a1

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I haven't looked into it too much or done it myself, but I heard of https://creativeheartwarrior.com/pages/filament-recycling

Looks like they currently only take filament as a donation and not as an exchange.

Edit: also found https://printeriordesigns.com/pages/recycling

(Again, haven't personally tried)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

You should probably look into if there's a company doing this local to you. Either way, I'm very interested in this too.