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3D Printed Lampshade Collection Made from Recycled Plastic
Kisawa Sanctuary in Mozambique will be the world’s first 3D-printed resort
U of T researchers turn McDonald’s deep fryer oil into high-end 3D printing resin
3D Concrete Printing: A Step Towards Development in India
e-Waste To e-Wealth: This Togolese Tech Team Has Built Over Twenty 3D Printers From Trash
These 3D printed tiles are helping restore devastated coral reefs
Taiwan: Researchers Refine Small Wind Turbine Power Generation via 3D Printing
Sustainability in additive manufacturing?
Lung-inspired 3D printed heat exchanger could make carbon dioxide power plants a reality
3D Printed Fabric: Most Promising Projects in 2019
Made from 3D-printed sand, the hotel is minimally invasive
Purifying Water at Scale with 3D-Printed Graphene Aerogels
Nine Most Recent Posts in Environment
How NASA’s 3D-Printers Test Recycling Plastic in Space
These white rails, the rigid skeletons of small CubeSats, were the first objects 3D printed in orbit and used as part of a functioning satellite. NASA’s 3D-printing program began with making tiny wrenches and may end up building infrastructure on the moon. . In...
Improving the Circular Economy of 3D Printing with Plastic Recycling
Researchers from France’s Université de Lorraine and Michigan Technological University explore a topic that many users are very concerned about, detailed in the recently published ‘ Plastic recycling in additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review and...
HANNAH transforms wood considered as waste into this 3D-printed cabin
HANNAH is an experimental design and research studio working across different scales varying from furniture to urbanism. both digital design and fabrication technologies are intrinsic to their work, facilitating new material methods, tectonic articulations,...
Israeli company challenges Texas plastic industry with material made from garbage
One of the world’s biggest challenges is what to do with municipal garbage and old plastic. Landfills are filling up , recyclers in China do not want our plastic , and COVID-19 encourages us to use even more disposable products than ever. . But after years or...
3D-printed concrete to help build offshore wind energy infrastructure
Wind off the coasts of the U.S. could be used to generate more than double the combined electricity capacity of all the nation’s electric power plants, reports have suggested. . But building wind turbines offshore is expensive, requiring parts to be shipped at least...
Lights made from 3D-printed plant-based plastic – San Francisco firm leads the way in eco-friendly design
Victoria Slaker, the vice-president of industrial design at Ammunition, talks about the studio’s collaboration with 3D-printing platform Gantri to create lights made from corn-based plastic . How did this project come to fruition? “Ian [Yang, the founder of Gantri]...
e-Waste To e-Wealth: This Togolese Tech Team Has Built Over Twenty 3D Printers From Trash
Although it doesn’t get enough mentions – since it is often swept under the carpet as trivial in favour of its ‘more popular cousins’ – the world has an electronic waste (e-waste) problem and Africa, in particula, finds itself in a precarious position. . The...
The Green Quality of 3D Printing: HP Printing Celebrates Earth Day
This Earth Day, HP Printing is celebrating by talking about the benefits of 3D printing technology, and what that could mean for an individual, a business and the future of the earth. . For Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, it’s only fitting that we recognize the many...
3D Printed Corals Could Improve Bioenergy and Help Coral Reefs
Researchers from Cambridge University and University of California San Diego have 3D printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae. Their results, reported in the journal Nature Communications, open the door to...