A 3D printing enthusiast has made a cute, functional lo-fi digital camera using an optical sensor salvaged from a discarded ...

It should be apparent to most people that while plastics are great to design with, they’re hard on the environment. While the U.S. has started recycling programs, the amount of plastic produced every ...

VALPARAISO — Tubes filled with multicolored plastic pellets fill the shelf in Adam Johnson's kitchen. A large motor is perched on a table by the back door and, across from it, sits a peculiar metal ...

A skipper will replace his nylon fishing net every 6 months, says Ian Falconer, and most of the time they're buried in a ...

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), an Americas polyolefins and biopolymers producer, announced on May 19 that it has expanded its partnership with Vartega Inc. (Golden, Colo., U.S.) a recycler of advanced ...

BOTHELL, WA., 16 April 2015 – NASA has announced that its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program has selected Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) for award of a Phase II contract to develop a ...

Every little plastic bauble you interact with has some sort of recycling code on it somewhere. Now that we’re producing plastic 3D printed parts at home, it would be a good idea to agree on how to ...

Slowly but surely, car companies are beginning to make themselves more sustainable. We most often hear about this movement in the context of using clean energy to power the production lines and ...

NASA is paying big bucks to experiment with plastics recycling on the International Space Station. The space agency recently inked a deal with Firmamentum, a division of Tethers Unlimited, that is ...

A team of University of Maine (UMaine, Orono, U.S.) researchers have secured a $75,000 grant to explore recycling wind blades as feedstock for 3D printing. The award is a Phase 1 winner from the ...

For the first time in the US, scientists have used 3D printing to scale up the recycling of the precursors of an important medical isotope. Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) is an important medical isotope used ...

Here is another great recycle idea! How about use plastic from old bottles and transform it into filament for 3d printers?