If you're in the market for a 3D printer, you'll find one here that fits your needs. The US Environmental Protection Agency reports that the US generated 35.7 million tons (roughly the weight of 17.8 ...

Backyard cottages have been hailed as a way to quickly add new rental space in cities with a shortage of housing. But they’re typically expensive to build. In L.A., where the city government has been ...

Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically determine the printing parameters of an unknown material. This could help engineers use emerging renewable or recycled materials that have ...

Discover how plastic bottles can be transformed into 3D printing filament. This process involves converting PET plastic bottles into long ribbons that are fed through a heated nozzle to produce ...

RIT Dubai project reinvents campus plastic waste to produce 3D printing materials As the world struggles with growing plastic waste, a team of mechanical engineering students from Rochester Institute ...

This week, EKOCYCLE and 3D Systems (3DS) unveiled the EKOCYCLE CUBE — a 3D printer that upcycles post-consumer plastic bottles into items of your design. EDS says the Cube “is not just another tool ...

Recycling plastic into filament normally involves chopping it into tiny pieces and pushing it through a screw extruder. [JRT3D] is taking a different approach with PetBot, which cuts PET bottles into ...

In a significant step forward for sustainable robotics, a fully 3D-printed autonomous logistics robot has been unveiled by a European tech collaboration. The off-road robot—manufactured entirely from ...

Thermoplastics are great, because you can melt them down and reform them into whatever you like. This is ably demonstrated by [The Q] by recycling old soda bottles into usable 3D printer filament.