Recyclebot makes HDPE for your MakerBot from Milk Jugs!

recyclebot

The crew over at Victoria University of Wellington are rocking it by working on a recycler that attaches to your MakerBot and recycles milk jugs into filament. How cool is that! Check out their whole archive!

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  • =ml=
    August 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm
     

    Sweet!

    I just added it to http://wiki.makerbot.com/plastic-recycling

     
  • links for 2010-08-03
    August 3, 2010 at 3:02 pm
     

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  • versonova
    August 3, 2010 at 4:07 pm
     

    brilliant!

     
  • Turning plastic trash into 3d printable material - machine quotidienne
    August 4, 2010 at 4:43 am
     

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  • Larry Aaron
    August 5, 2010 at 5:36 am
     

    How long before you might a real working model? What kind of price tag do you think will come with it? Will it be seperate from the makerbot or a add on feature? What kind of plastic’s will it be able to churn in it’s hopper?

    southdade

     
  • Larry Aaron
    August 5, 2010 at 5:39 am
     

    First line should have read, “How long before you might have a real working model?

    southdade

     
 

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