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Recyclebot

    Recyclebot

    Recyclebot (2010)

    The advent of the Makerbot in  2009 – the first sub $1000 3D printer – promised a seachange in our  understanding of 3D printing. Preferring not to wait and see, Ross  Stevens put the following challenge to our industrial design students:

    “As 3D printing technology  continues to become cheaper and thus more accessible to the general  public the opportunity for products to be made@home emerges. To maximize  the ecological and economic potential of this it needs to be  complimented with a de-making process allowing recycled@home”.

    From this emerged the Recyclebot – an open-source hardware device for recycling plastic waste and  transforming it into 3D printing filament – first conceived, named and  developed by a group of nine students in 2010. While the initial  prototype had a small ecological footprint, it was only hand powered and  not able to produce filament of a high enough quality for 3D printing,  but subsequent powered iterations did produce usable filament. It has  since been acknowledged as Recyclebot V1.0 and  it initiated the development of many versions of Recyclebots around the  world, which have proven to be successful and viable for high quality  production of 3D printing filament. This small-scale and localised  method of processing plastic waste has potential for localised or  distributed production of filament as a more sustainable alternative to  importing 3D printing filament.

       

    In  this scenario domestic plastic, such as bottles or toys, are harvested  and transformed from specific and redundant objects into generic plastic  filament that can feed through the Makerbot to produced completely new objects. This offers the potential for a closed material loop – nowadays known as circular economy –  within the home where plastic is constantly transformed depending on  needs, desires and whims of a new generation of digitally empowered  craftspeople. They are no longer at the mercy of a far-off designers  taste but are now part of the design process, becoming creators in their  own right.

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