If you've got a spare $600 laying around, but that buys a lot of filament!

CNCKitchen did a review of the Arteme 3D here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT04glGDjB4

But unless you've also got a grinder, a spare oven to dehydrate the plastic, etc -- it's just not worth the time.

What I've seen people suggest is to just buy a silicone mold from Amazon -- something you think is cool -- and dump little scraps of filament into the mold and bake it in a small toaster oven. The plastic will fill up the mold, making something nice and heavy to use as a paperweight and/or sell on etsy.

Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypitKDr928

There is the recycling fabrik in Germany. They take orders from outside Europe as well as far as I know. It has a minimum weight of a few kilos though, so maybe collect with friends and local communities before? They take pla and petg

I've been just collecting all the bits by type and I'm wanting to set up a small grinder and injection mold system. It seems like recycling the scrap isn't worth the time and effort to most businesses

There are recycling services in the UK, but I have no clue about US.

@chrischryse Practically none

New Lemmy Post: Filament recycling options for PLA, PETG, and TPU (https://lemmy.world/post/11217661)
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