Recycling Plastic Waste with a 3D Printer Filament Extruder Ian Rasmussen, Alberto Ng, Jeremy Anderson, Brandon Jafari, Rob Younes, Ben Bartol
May 11, 2020
In 2017, 348 million metric tons, which is equivalent to the weight of 1,051 Empire State Buildings, of plastic were produced worldwide (PlasticsEurope). The most broad solution to the plastic problem is recycling. In our project, we try to attempt a more profitable and effective solution to help reuse the plastics from the ocean. 3D filament is expensive, so one would have to make an extruder to make plastic filament for 3D printers. The goal is to influence at home plastic filament to reduce the oceans plastic.
