Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just ...

A new era of 3D-printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in ...

The one major drawback is that almost all of these printers are limited to printing in plastic, which has its obvious limitations. Printing in metal seems like the next logical step, and a group ...

Each cube is made of plastic scintillator (PS ... experience with additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing. He likes to take a pragmatic view on the matter: if the goal is ...

"If this [waste-made plastic] can now be fed into a 3D printer, can you actually print a whole range of products?" she said. One such product already made are "clamps" — or blocks — used in ...