In German laboratories, plastic bottle caps that once held your morning milk are being reborn as precision-engineered components through an innovative recycling process that converts post-consumer packaging waste into high-purity 3D printing filaments. Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just once. While Germany achieved a plastic packaging recycling rate of 68.9% in 2023, significant volumes of plastic waste continue rising, having approximately tripled across Germany over the past 30 years. Where German households produced 2.1 million metric tons of plastic waste in 1994, the figure had … Continue reading German Scientists Convert 5.6M Tons Plastic Waste Into 99.8% Pure 3D Printing Filaments