That bit about testing the strength of the recycled plastic was extra interesting. To get more recycled products we should reward companies that compete with sustainability. Measurement, standards and incentives need to be established to foster that.

I'm just amazed by how smooth you could transition from the most recycle friendly material to a resin ad ...

Probably one of the coolest printer related mods in 2022.

LOVE this project, Josh is such a good human too. Love that dude.

Dude, this guy is epic! Such a cool way to address both plastic waste and e-waste!

Thanks for covering this, Tom. I love how Josh got this up and running - I built a Recreator using the Xvico from his original plans and it's so cool being able to convert bottles into filament at home.

i've kept my head out of the 3d printing arena, but this now makes me want one, being able to upcycle stuff that is regarded as waste! absolute genius!

Thanks Tom for sharing what was on ERRF with us :)

This is kick ass, one of the best spin offs of the bottle to filiment, prosses I invented in 2018, I'v ever seen. Clean design and well thought out.

Couldn't help but notice the 3DPN high five over his shoulder at 1:43 LOL

It was cool talking to him on saturday, he knows alot about what hes doing. Im thinking about making one!

Thank you Tom I was hoping someone posted about this!

I just finished building up an returned ender 3. I got it for $55 and was able to get just about all the upgrades cheaper than the original printer.

It’s a beautiful project. The PET became my free filament and the Recreator is improved to a really reliable machine. I printed earrings less than a mm thick with bottle PET. And my dungeon tiles are adding on the pile of shame. An MMU makes the job easier, a palette allows to join filaments effortlessly. I went for my Voron build before time just to mount an ERCF and print free and environmentally friendly parts for my hobbies.

Super cool project. Glad to see options and progress towards recycling. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Please do a follow-up later with them. And it would be awesome if you did one about the resin cast and hand-operated injection molding process.

I usually don't notice thumbnails, but the one you made for this video is beautiful.

So many people are making them it's great to see I and Mr3d have helped so many ♥

These types of video has convinced me that 3d printing is the recycling future we need. We need not just bottles but molten plastic into filament is what needs to be made super dirt cheap

I built a ReCreator3D and made a few bottles into filament before needing to use a PSU from it. But I'll soon have it pulling PET1 bottles again. It's a great project and Josh is very helpful to those looking to build one..... Which you should ;-).

CANT WAIT FOR THE MOLD MAKING 🤩🤩

I lol-ed thinking about grabbing a returned Ender for this. Super cool.

Genuinely interesting advert ! Cheers Tom

Amazing work!!!

Cool project. What a legend

I really like that the machine looks to be mostly made of the bottle plastic.

This is honestly an innovation this guys a top g

This is very tempting to make...

Here is an idea; there is a dealer that sell warranty returned Enders as a print farm starter (2, 3, 5, printers) for lower prices, I would be tempted to buy a pair of them and turn one into a pull-struder rig to make PET filament.

Thank you for covering this, personally I hope we get more machines like this to help recycle old things into new and interesting ones. =)

Great idea, and implementation ✌

As much as I love reusing plastic, PET is the one plastic that is highly recyclable in my area. So taking it out of the recycle stream isn't helpful. We really need a way to reuse PP (5 mark) and ideally all plastics. Maybe we just need a universal pellet extruder than can use shredded plastic.

awesome project

This is USA we all would need. This is brilliant, in all aspects.

More of this please!

Love the channel. I'd love to see a video of using onshape to design things that are bigger than my printer. Showing a good way make parts that can be joined to make a bigger part.

This is so frgn awesome!

Wouldn't it be great to get these in to the hands of people in developing countries, where it might be hard (and very expensive for local wage levels) to get new filament? I've seen some reports of people in remote villages in developing countries using 3D printing to benefit their communities. Being able to access free feedstock could be a game changer.

Look for PETamentor mk2, the easiest and cheapest to make, well documented and no need to use microcontroller or programming

Love it. Better looking than mine 😂

For the moment Siraya Tech is my favorite resin (i've test build and simple)

Outstanding!

Finally a use for the Ender 3! xD

freaking cool

interesting project. you can improve its efficiency by increasing the melting temperature and accelerating the cooling system by using the PELTIER module

So cool! I would love to buy one unit ready to recycle PET bottles

Polyformer is a similar project to this! I built one and it's great!

great great work on a much needed machine, also spot the 3dPrintingNerd Joel's photo (video) bomb LOL

best projet of the world, GJ

I love this idea 😍 sent a fallow 🤗 I am definitely interested in learning more

was wondering how to join the filaments into one continuous length. Secret sauce is the runout sensor and a person there to change the filament real fast. Cool! Would be useful on islands where importing anything is expensive but plastic bottles show up on the beach for free every day. I wonder how many solar panels it would take to run the pultruder and 3-d printer.

one bottle peeler is good, but i reckon having some kind of method to start feeding in a second peeler strand before the end of the previous peeled strand has completely been sucked into the pull-struder. so, in short, two peelers instead of one. maybe taper the end of the first strand and taper the beginning of the next strand? fun problem!

thats awesome.

Might it be easier to slice the bottle first, then join the strips, then pultrude the continuous length of strip?

"sadly" in Germany it is not really viable to do this due to our "Pfandsystem" (depositsystem) . The bottle value is too high (0.25€ per bottle) and there are not many products in deposit free PET bottles anymore. But at least the bottles here are recycled in a more general way. But for other countries this seems to be a really cool idea!

What would be better is a hopper where you can put ground (or to be ground) PETG in and it grinds and melts to a useable filament. This way you can use the whole plastic whatever container and not have to spool it like the bottle. The amount of PETG that goes in the garbage is insane (fruit containers, produce containers, plastic bottles, product bubble heat wraps, etc). Recycle all of this stuff!!

What do you think about ultrasonic welding, to join the mini-spools you get from each bottle together?

The only thing I hate about the design...how does it compensate for varying wall-thickness of the bottle? Y'all may have addressed this somewhere else, but here is my take on the issue. PET bottles are the opposite of Dinosaurs: while extinct lizards are thin at both ends and much thicker in the middle, bottle side-walls tend to be thinnest in the middle and much ticker at the ends. A strip the same width is easy/peasy; a strip of constant VOLUME (see what I did there?) is a little tougher. Or not... A pinch-roller that 'senses' the thickness of the side-wall being cut would be tied to a mechanism that alters the width of the strip in response. Result is a strip of material with a constant cross-sectional area, which leads to uniform filament diameter.

This is cool. Super slow, but cool AF.

You gotta eat your pizza!

Amazing

What a champ.

I need something like this for recycling print scraps rather than soda bottles. So much PLA and PETG scrap I'd love to turn back into filament with as little fiddling as possible.

I would really like to see something like this that can make filament from shredded material or pellets

k guess i have a new project now so thanks for that lol. Does the semi molten portion not need any cooling fan?

Good dude.

how clever you are😱😳🤩

I made one fr9m an old broken Anet a8 not to long ago, the problem I'm running into is the filament keeps jamming up in my printer. Haven't been able to get it to work reliably no matter what I try.

I was gifted an Ender 3 Pro by a customer and I've decided that building a gadget like this will be my first major project.

when making the pet filament that comes out of the hot nozzle will be a tube?

I love how in "first world countries" this is a garbage find, while for us, an ender 3 is printer farm material.

I'm new to 3d printing but how much would u sell that filament maker system for becouse that's a great ideas saving plastic waste and saving on pla👍👍😊😊

now that's recycling. finally. thank you.

I always wondered whether can we put multiple bottles feeding with thinner ribbons cut, making the subsequent roll same in quality but combined in length.

I have no I treat in doing this but I watched this whole video and am leaving this comment because I love this channel

one problem may be in design. with more yield filament may be thinner due to diameter increase

You can splice filament by mosaic pallate 3

If you don't have any old ender machine laying around then petamentor is best option. It's way more cheaper (under 50$) and simple to build (no need any programming)

How is plastic from bottles Vs pla, or petg regarding strengt and difficulties? Like, does pet shrink like for example abs likes to do?

thanks for saving us...

Maybe the only true bottle recycling on the planet. Because all the city collection is BS, thanks Siraya for your wonderful work.

How do you control it do you use the printer circuit board If so how do you program it to just turn on without having a print for the circuit board to print

I love the idea. In regards to his problem with joining his recycled filaments, why not manually jpin them and then pass them through the pullstruder again? Surely that would sort out any size inconsistencies and ensure a better bond.

adorable.

I have an old ender 3 main board, screen, hotend, thermistors and heaters. I really want to make one of these but don’t know where to start…

I have two machines to break down so this could be great 👍

I have been kicking around the idea of using a 3d printer hot end and extruder to injection mold. I think for small parts it might be possible

I need one to create free filament, where can I buy this(not 3d printer)?

Excelente! 👍

nice but heres the problem you can only do one bottle so a small ammount of filament per roll very small theres no way to merge another bottle to make a whole 2kg roll.. so for small stuff sure.. what you need is a continuiouse like they use professionally to make filament with screws and pellots and a way to make the pellets grinding them up and melting them into pellets that would be ideal

Now you just need the idle arm to move back and forth to properly spool

How does the shape of the bottle affect the quality parameters of the resulting filament? Nowadays I rarely see those mostly cylindrical bottles in Central Europe that I see in all the Recreator videos. Most are tallied or have intentional dents, bulges or grooves.

In Germany the seller charges a deposit on most PET Bottles, most glass bottles and aluminium cans, usually 25 cent. So this looks really cool but is expensive to operate for us

I wounder if I can convert an old tevo tarantula pro into one

No info on the injection molds from little peices?

Hi bro. How wide is the pet bottle yarn?

A wild Joel appears Edit: lol a small one as well

I have no idea how he avoids crystallization in pure PET. From my experience it's simply impossible :P

Can someone tell me if there is such a technology for upcycling pla waste (or any 3d material) into new material?

@2:23 you see 3D printer Nerd! Lol also awesome video and info!