{"id":19077,"date":"2015-12-15T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2015-12-15T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:03:07","slug":"brooklyn-design-firm-figures-out-how-to-print-3d-with-potato-chip-bags-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/brooklyn-design-firm-figures-out-how-to-print-3d-with-potato-chip-bags-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Design Firm Figures Out How To Print 3D With Potato Chip Bags [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does 3D printing have promise for reinventing manufacturing, as well as some other specialized tasks? Yes&#8230; but, for now, it still strikes me as a way to produce tchotchkes, knick-knacks, and trinkets (the word the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Technology\/2015\/1210\/What-potato-chips-and-3D-printing-have-in-common\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/em> chose). But if the plastic that goes into those items comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2015\/02\/12\/recycling-plastic-waste-3d-print-fails-filament-cruncher\/\">plastic that&#8217;s been recovered for recycling<\/a>, that&#8217;s not a bad thing &#8211; right? Sure: obviously, there&#8217;s a demand for those\u00a0tchotchkes, knick-knacks, and trinkets, so if we&#8217;re going to 3D print these things, why not do it from waste plastic?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/tag\/3d-printing\/\">a number of efforts along these lines already<\/a>; the latest effort comes from Brooklyn-based design firm 3D Brooklyn. After making the connection by looking at take-out containers they were throwing away, the company connected with Terracycle, the New Jersey-based company that figures out how to reuse materials that can&#8217;t be traditionally recycled. The answer: potato chip bags.<\/p>\n<p>No, not the potato chip bag you toss in the trash: I&#8217;d guess the necessary cleaning on those might make them too expensive. But Terracycle has a ton of post-industrial bags that needed to be put to use; using them to print 3D items seemed like a good fit.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the video above which describes this development in greater detail, and then let us know what you think. One more point for 3D printing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/10\/potato-chip-bags-3d-printing\">Mashable<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Featured photo credit: Screen capture from &#8220;Recycled potato chip bags are the new wave of 3D printing&#8221; video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D Brooklyn wanted to use waste plastic to print 3D items. 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