{"id":73058,"key":"Wood_Furniture_Waste-Based_Recycled_3-D_Printing_Filament","title":"Wood Furniture Waste-Based Recycled 3-D Printing Filament","latest":{"id":1209179,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T01:44:21Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Woodprint.png|thumb]]\n\n{{MOST}}\n\n{{Publication data\n| type = Paper\n| cite-as = Adam M. Pringle, Mark Rudnicki, and Joshua Pearce (2017) Wood Furniture Waste-Based Recycled 3-D Printing Filament. ''Forest Products Journal'' 2018, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 86-95. https://doi.org/10.13073/FPJ-D-17-00042 [https://www.academia.edu/37662455/Wood_Furniture_Waste-Based_Recycled_3-D_Printing_Filament open access]\n}}\n\nThe 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.\n\n** Full open source plans to build a [[recyclebot]]\n\n{{MOST-RepRap}}\n\n{{Pearce publications notice}}\n\n== Keywords ==\n\n distributed manufacturing]]; [[recycling]]; [[recyclebot]]; [[3-D printing]]; polymer filament; wood; wood waste\n\n== Post Process ==\n\n* https://www.matterhackers.com/articles/how-to-post-process-wood-infused-3d-filament\n\n== Wood Filament Suppliers ==\n\n* https://www.imaginplastics.co.nz/shop/3D+Printing+Filament/Wood-Filled+PLA%3Fcat=00483.html (10% by Weight New Zealand Pine, 90 % INGEO)\n* https://www.amazon.com/wood-filament/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Awood%20filament\n* https://3dwithus.com/wood-filament\n* http://web.archive.org/web/20200807150950/https://woodfilament.com/\n* http://www.polymaker.com/shop/polywood/ - wood like but no real wood\n* https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/advanced-biocarbon-3d-develops-engineering-grade-wood-based-3d-printer-filament-146227/ - starting from poplar\n\n{{MOST-recycle}}\n\n== Literature Reviews ==\n\n* [[Solar powered recyclebot literature review]]\n* [[Waste plastic extruder: literature review]]\n* [[Life cycle analysis of polymer recycling literature review]]\n\n== In the media ==\n\n* [https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000005689493.html Kodin jäte voi pian muuttua leluiksi tai käyttöesineiksi – Tältä näyttää 3d-tulostuksen tulevaisuus, joka mullistaa muovin kierrättämisen] -- Helsingin Sanomat\n* [https://www.impresoras3d.com/filamento-de-madera-3d-a-partir-del-reciclado/ Filamento de madera 3D a partir del reciclado] Impresoras 3D\n* Michigan Tech Researchers Recycle Wood Furniture Waste into Composite 3D Printing Material [https://3dprint.com/228664/michigan-tech-recycle-wood-furniture-waste-into-composite-3d-printing-material/ 3D Print 49.1k]\n* Michigan Tech Forscher recyceln Holzmöbelabfälle zu 3D-Druckmaterial aus Verbundwerkstoffen [https://3druck.com/forschung/michigan-tech-forscher-recyceln-holzmoebelabfaelle-zu-3d-druckmaterial-aus-verbundwerkstoffen-5076931/ 3D Ruck]\n* 密歇根技术研究人员将废弃木制家具回收为复合3D打印材料 [http://m.3dimperial.com/news/smallCategoryId/2/id/40001.html 3D Imperial]\n* Researchers use industrial wood-waste to make FDM/FFF wood filament [https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/researchers-use-industrial-wood-waste-to-make-fdm-fff-wood-filament-142567 3D Printing Industry 64.3k]\n* 美 연구팀, 폐기 목재물로 3D프린터 필라멘트 개발 성공 [http://web.archive.org/web/20181102091603/http://www.zdnet.co.kr/news/news_view.asp?artice_id=20181102142308 ZDNet (Korea)12k]\n* Scientists make 3D printable wood filament from furniture waste [https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/technology/scientists-make-3d-printable-wood-filament-furniture-waste Wood Working Network 162k]\n* Filamento de madera 3D a partir del reciclado [https://www.impresoras3d.com/filamento-de-madera-3d-a-partir-del-reciclado/ Impresoras 3D]\n* 3D printable wood filament from furniture wood-waste [https://www.woodbusinessportal.com/en/news1/2245/3D_printable_wood_filament_from_furniture_wood-waste Wood Business Portal]\n* 10 Eco-Friendly 3D Printing Stories From 2018 [https://3dprint.com/232789/10-eco-friendly-3d-printing-stories-2018/ 3D Print]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = wood\n| description = Wood waste from old furniture can be turned into 3D printer filament. Appropedia explores how this reduces waste and supports reuse.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Polymer recycling]]\n[[Category:MOST completed projects and publications]]\n[[Category:3D printing]]\n[[Category:Recycling]]\n[[Category:Rural community development]]\n[[Category:Polymers]]\n[[Category:Plastic]]\n[[Category:Plastic bottles]]\n[[Category:Wood]]"}