Circularity
Let’s make recyclable recycled
Abbiamo creato una filiera alternativa circolare per il riciclo del PLA stampato 3D.
3D printing, however virtuous, is not a waste-free process. PLA waste, in particular, has no place in traditional recycling chains even though it is a compostable material. The thickness of 3D printed objects does not allow the waste to biodegrade as a PLA cup would. However, if sorted into plastic, they are incinerated: a bio-based, recyclable material is therefore wasted.
Since our foundation in 2018, we have never thrown away our waste with the aim of giving it a new lease of life sooner or later. In March 2020, we finally devised a recycling system that could work not only for our own waste, but also for that of other labs and organisations that, like us, print and care about sustainability.
In March 2020, a network was set up to collect and recycle the waste in our lab to make it reprintable: make recyclable recycled.
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Since March 2020 we have been recycling:
1092,956 kg
of PLA
the equivalent of 218591
coffee capsules
173 km
of filament
like Milan-Turin
one way
273 ore
of granulation
like watching the Il Signore degli Anelli 30 volte
