Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just ...

A new era of 3D-printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in the construction industry.

In Germany, about 5.6 million tons of plastic packaging are thrown away every year after just one use. Sadly, less than a ...

From seat cushions to mattresses to insulation, foam is everywhere—even if we don't always see it. Now, researchers at The ...

So she put in the effort to make 3D-printed plastic look like distressed metal ... So she designed a demonstration cube covered with mechanical characteristics, and gave us this walkthrough ...

The 3D printing industry has made incredible strides over the past decade, but one nagging problem persists: what happens to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, offers a viable method for constructing large-scale plastic scintillator detectors used in particle physics. A new ...

Fraunhofer recycles packaging waste into 3D printing material with purity levels of more than 99.8% - suitable for ...