Recyclebot

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A recyclebot (or RecycleBot) is an

DIY 3D printer filament at home is both less costly and better for the environment than purchasing conventional 3D printer filament.[2][3][4] In following the RepRap tradition there are recyclebot designs that use mostly 3-D printable parts.[5]

Motivation and benefits

RepRap 3D printers have been shown to reduce costs for consumers by offsetting purchases that can be printed.

solar photovoltaics.[17]

Technology

The RecycleBot is an open-source hardware project – thus its plans are freely available on the Internet.

History

The history of the RecycleBot was largely derived from the work on the RepRap Wiki under GNU Free Documentation License1.2.[20]

The first recyclebot was developed by students at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

HDPE for use as a growth medium in aquaponics.[24] This design for the recyclebot was developed, tested and published in the peer-reviewed rapid prototyping literature.[25] This device proved viable for producing 3D printing filament. The Recyclebot v2.2 is being developed by the Michigan Tech in Open Sustainability Technology Research Group.[26]

Many

DIY enthusiasts have made various versions of RecycleBots. The most notable is the Lyman filament extruder. Lyman, a retired engineer, won a design contest to make a low-cost 3D filament fabrication system.[27] As of 2014, there were many types of recyclebots, many of which are at the early stages of commercialization. Recyclebot technology has been applied to hangprinters to allow for fused particle fabrication of large prints without first having to form filament.[28]

Futurist speculation

Jeremy Rifkin has hypothesized that such recycling with recyclebots and distributed production with 3D printing will lead to a zero marginal cost society.[29] The science-fiction author, Bruce Sterling wondered in Wired if recyclebots and 3D printers might be used to turn waste into guns.[30] Recyclebots can provide a new method of recycling.[31]

References

  1. S2CID 15980607
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  2. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.02.009
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  3. ^ The importance of the Lyman Extruder, Filamaker, Recyclebot and Filabot to 3D printing Archived 18 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine – VoxelFab, 2013.
  4. S2CID 18303920
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  5. ISSN 2468-0672
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  6. ^ B.T. Wittbrodt, A.G. Glover, J. Laureto, G.C. Anzalone, D. Oppliger, J.L. Irwin, J.M. Pearce (2013), Life-cycle economic analysis of distributed manufacturing with open-source 3-D printers, Mechatronics, 23 (2013), pp. 713–726. open access
  7. ^ Study: At-home 3-D printing could save consumers 'thousands' – CNN, 2013
  8. ^ Printing Keychains and Shower Heads: 3-D Printing Goes Beyond the Lab – ABC News
  9. ^ A 3-D Printer Can Pay For Itself In Less Than A Year – Popular Science, 2013
  10. ^ Turning old plastic into 3D printer filament is greener than conventional recycling – 3Ders, 2014
  11. ^ Study: At-home 3-D printing could save consumers 'thousands' – CNN, 2013
  12. ^ 3-D Printing of Open Source Appropriate Technologies for Self-Directed Sustainable Development
  13. ^ DJ Pangburn. 2014.How 3D Printers Are Boosting Off-The-Grid, Underdeveloped Communities - MotherBoard
  14. ^ http://techfortrade.org/our-initiatives/3d4d-challenge/the-ethical-filament-foundation/ Tech for Trade – Ethical Filament Foundation
  15. ^ Charity Targets 3D Printing’s Plastic Waste Problem With Standards For An Ethical Alternative 7 November 2013 by Natasha Lomas, Tech Crunch, https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/ethical-additive-manufacturing/
  16. doi:10.5539/jsd.v7n5p1
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  17. ^ Shan Zhong, S. et al. Energy Payback Time of a Solar Photovoltaic Powered Waste Plastic Recyclebot System. Recycling 2017, 2(2), 10; doi: 10.3390/recycling2020010
  18. ^ "RecycleBot v2.2 by jpearce".
  19. ^ "RecycleBot v2.3 Controls by jpearce".
  20. ^ "Recyclebot - RepRap".
  21. ^ Burgess, Phil (5 August 2010). "Recyclebot digests milk jugs to feed MakerBot". hackaday.com/. hackaday.
  22. ^ Duann (3 August 2010). "RecycleBot: Greening the MakerBot". The Shapeways Blog. shapeways.
  23. ^ Pettis, Bre (3 August 2010). "Recyclebot makes HDPE for your MakerBot from Milk Jugs!". makerbot.com blog. makerbot.
  24. ^ Web4Deb's blog.
  25. S2CID 15980607
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  26. ^ "Category:MOST - Appropedia: The sustainability wiki".
  27. ^ Harry McCracken (4 March 2013). "How an 83-Year-Old Inventor Beat the High Cost of 3D Printing". Time.
  28. PMID 36818952
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  29. ^ Jeremy Rifkin, Zero Marginal Cost Society, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  30. ^ 3D Printed gun moving from sinister joke to sinister business model By Bruce Sterling – Wired – Beyond the Beyond
  31. ^ Baltodano, S. (2013). RISE. http://www.mme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/F13-OR-T-4.pdf
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