VERY First Pull on The Recreator 3D!
Soon shortly after; I finalized my own design, The Recreator 3D - MK1, as I had started to promote the filament and the demand became too much for one machine. Sticking with the nature of the original idea of the PET-Pull project, I decided as well to keep my build notes open source and free to the community.
The Recreator 3D was originally created with the XViCO X3S 3D Printers. It's base structure; a few accessories, and a handful of 3D Printed parts are all that was used.
As I had an abundance of left over parts from doing repair work on their Amazon returns in order to allow them to have a resale market for returns.
The Recreator 3D's purpose is to recreate PET#1 recyclable plastic bottles into usable 3D filament. The smallest, most compact and portable pultrusion unit seen within the community. It's ability to strip, reform, color, and spool all in one continuous pull cycle; coming in under $220. This community kit will inspire most households and community team leaders.
The Recreator 3D is 100% free as a community build. With the Pet-Pull group from Russia as visual inspiration for first using the pultrusion method. I wanted to further adapt PET#1 recycling to be more accessible to every person in an even easier way. With this goal; we'll reshape our future's recycling methods, one bottle at a time!
The Recreator 3D's process unfortunately still leaves the waste of tops and bottoms of the plastic bottle. To avoid continued unwanted waste, research has started on new and cheaper solutions to further refine this material into shreds and continue to use it in adapting technologies like extruder heads for 3D Printers as well injection molding.
Gas emissions are created the second that product is made. The plastic is bought by the consumer for the product. Without the plastic there is no product. Now that plastic is treated as trash. Perhaps it’s recycled and we have an idea about where it goes. Ultimately, most of that is a figment. China stopped taking in plastic waste imports; simply because they couldn't handle the waste, nor was it profitable. They also became more polluted.
My idea is that the people must be more included and able. They must have affordable options to recreate their waste into new items. If the plastic doesn't leave the consumer’s house, the gas emission journey stops at their door.
Otherwise there is so much more impact the plastic can have on its continued journey of life; being set on fire or put into the ocean, rather than actually recycled and reused.
To fix a broken system, we must change the paradigm from the inside out.
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