Source
- Adam M. Pringle, Mark Rudnicki, and Joshua Pearce (2017) Wood Furniture Waste-Based Recycled 3-D Printing Filament. Forest Products Journal In-Press. https://doi.org/10.13073/FPJ-D-17-00042 [ open access]
- Full open source plans to build a recyclebot
Abstract
The Michigan furniture industry produces >150 tons/day of wood-based waste, which can be upcycled into a wood polymer composite (WPC). This study investigates the viability of using furniture waste as a feedstock for 3-D printer filament to produce furniture components. The process involves: grinding/milling board scraps made of both LDF/MDF/LDF and melamine/particleboard/paper impregnated with phenolic resins; pre-mixing wood-based powder with the biopolymer poly lactic acid (PLA), extruding twice through open-source recyclebots to fabricate homogeneous 3-D printable WPC filament, and printing with open source FFF-based 3-D printers. The results indicate there is a significant opportunity for waste-based composite WPCs to be used as 3-D printing filament.
Keywords
distributed manufacturing]]; recycling; recyclebot; 3-D printing; polymer filament; wood; wood waste
Post Process
Wood Filament Suppliers
- https://www.imaginplastics.co.nz/shop/3D+Printing+Filament/Wood-Filled+PLA%3Fcat=00483.html (10% by Weight New Zealand Pine, 90 % INGEO)
- https://www.amazon.com/wood-filament/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Awood%20filament
- https://3dwithus.com/wood-filament
- https://woodfilament.com/
- http://www.polymaker.com/shop/polywood/ - wood like but no real wood
See Also
- Recyclebot
- Tightening the loop on the circular economy: Coupled distributed recycling and manufacturing with recyclebot and RepRap 3-D printing
- Life cycle analysis of distributed recycling of post-consumer high density polyethylene for 3-D printing filament
- Evaluation of Potential Fair Trade Standards for an Ethical 3-D Printing Filament
- Mechanical Properties of Components Fabricated with Open-Source 3-D Printers Under Realistic Environmental Conditions
- Mechanical testing of polymer components made with the RepRap 3-D printer
- Development and feasibility of applications for the RepRap 3-D printer
- Life cycle analysis of distributed polymer recycling
- Solar powered distributed customized manufacturing
- Distributed recycling of post-consumer plastic waste in rural areas
- Ethical Filament Foundation
- Energy Payback Time of a Solar Photovoltaic Powered Waste Plastic Recyclebot System
- Economist article on U. of Washington's HDPE boat, Oprn3dp.me
- Cruz, F., Lanza, S., Boudaoud, H., Hoppe, S., & Camargo, M. Polymer Recycling and Additive Manufacturing in an Open Source context: Optimization of processes and methods. http://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2015/2015-127-Cruz.pdf
- Investigating Material Degradation through the Recycling of PLA in Additively Manufactured Parts http://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2017/Manuscripts/InvestigatingMaterialDegradationthroughtheRec.pdf
- Mohammed, M.I., Das, A., Gomez-Kervin, E., Wilson, D. and Gibson, I., EcoPrinting: Investigating the use of 100% recycled Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) for Additive Manufacturing. http://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2017/Manuscripts/EcoprintingInvestigatingtheUseof100Recycle.pdf
- Kariz, M., Sernek, M., Obućina, M. and Kuzman, M.K., 2017. Effect of wood content in FDM filament on properties of 3D printed parts. Materials Today Communications. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352492817302635
- Kaynak, B., Spoerk, M., Shirole, A., Ziegler, W. and Sapkota, J., 2018. Polypropylene/Cellulose Composites for Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, p.1800037. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/mame.201800037
Literature Reviews
- Solar powered recyclebot literature review
- Waste plastic extruder: literature review
- Life cycle analysis of polymer recycling literature review