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 ...

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 ...

Using 3D printing, researchers have combined coffee grounds and mushroom spores to create a compostable plastic ...

They make it easy to use threaded fasteners with plastic parts, and they work great with 3D printing too. There’s a bit of a knack to installing them without damaging your workpiece, however ...

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 ...

"If this [waste-made plastic] can now be fed into a 3D printer, can you actually print a whole range of products?" she said. One such product already made are "clamps" — or blocks — used in ...