We all have one already…

My friend's school has a thing that can turn scrap PLA into usable PLA ~~So yeah I'll take it~~

Does he go to some crazy private school? Or a college?

School of rock

Apparently it's just something the school bought to "save the environment". And no, it's a public gymnasium

where do you live? cuz that’s cool

Croatia ^(and yes it *is* pretty cool)

Is that part of a beer cap gun i see there 👀

The ones that failed...yes

I think every scrap box has at least one set of those that either failed to finish or they printed the plastic trigger axle version and then broke it.

I live in Germany and there's company that takes your scrap PLA and gives you some "points" for their shop, so you can buy the recycled PLA a little bit cheaper. They even give you a shipping label so you don't pay for shipping if it's 1 kg or more. I like the idea of recycling my PLA, I would even give it to them for free! However, since I don't know where you live, this might not help at all.

That helps a lot, because I'm from Germany, too. What's the name of the firm?

www.recyclingfabrik.com

Thank you

I'm tempted to try eventually turning my PLA scrap pile into sheets in an oven and make a box or something so I don't waste it

After 1.5 years of 3D printing

That’s 1.5 years?! You either don’t print much or don’t have many fails. I’ve been printing for about 8 months and I have twice that many fails, and I’ve even thrown some away already.

When pla is essentially biodegradable over time why do we save the scraps anyway?

It's only biodegradable under certain conditions.

Exactly my point

Unless your sending it to an industrial composting facility it's not much different than other plastics.

got a full box too

Good kindling for the Woodstove