Category:Recycling

The "recycling" category covers methods to recycle polymers for use in RepRaps.

• Ways to convert plastic cups, plastic bottles, etc. into filament that can be used by a RepRap.
• Ways to convert big solid chunks of plastic -- such as Childs Shoes that have been outgrown -- into filament that can be used by a RepRap -- perhaps to print slightly larger shoes that will fit for a few more months.

Some researchers are interested in other kinds of recycling:

• recycling old, broken printers and other electronics and using them to build 3d printers
  • Kent's Strapper
  • "WoeLab & W.Afate"
  • "JunkBot – Yesterdays Junk Is Tomorrow’s RepRap".
  • "The Phoenix Project: Recycled Epson Printer Parts into 3D Printer"
  • "Rebirth of obsolete Inkjet printers into 3D printers: THE PHOENIX PROJECT"
  • "building a 3d printer from old printer parts" is apparently the same person building "my RepScrap 3D printer."
  • "Printer Print Project: Build a ... state-of-the-art reprap/3D printer design using parts from discarded printers."; "Printer Print Project: SLIDESHOW"
• Tarkun Gelstronic created a 3D printer for under $100 by recycling old computer and 2D printer parts.
• modular designs for 3D printers so that they can be disassembled and re-used in other devices, such as bigger, better RepRap designs
  • design, Rroofl, Ship of Theseus, RepRap Building System, etc.