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Creative uses for old plastics

Creative uses for old plastics

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Eva Amsen
May 26, 2023
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I like the concept of 3D printing creative new things and cheap solutions, but I don’t like the idea of all the plastic that goes into it. Good news though: researchers are constantly finding new ways of repurposing old materials into filaments for 3D printing. In a recent example, researchers in Brazil used old coffee pods to create a conductive filame…

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