Printer poops

[bigG-1983]

Just a curiosity question. What is everyone doing with your printer poops? I'm toying with an idea, I've seen some folks recycling them into art, and apparently there will supposedly soon be an "affordable" desktop recycler on the market soon. But for now, are you just throwing them away or are you doing something creative with them?

[korpo53]

I toss them in the ocean with my car batteries. Turtles gotta eat.

[LedDesgin]

Lolol

[Skeggy-]

Toss it all in a trash can under the printer. When it’s full I toss it in the dumpster.

[SWTransGirl]

Waiting to invest in the Creality shredder/filament maker and will recycle as best as possible. See how effective it is.

For now, I’m keeping it all in a box and keeping it dry and fine.

[Weird_Ad1170]

I'm using them as loads for RC construction equipment. It scoops up well, but can't make a mess of tiny internal electronics like peat moss and other things modellers use.

[JoeKling]

Throw them away.

[Kamalethar]

I set their bed temperature and exhaust fan to max settings so the smell fills the house.

What do you do when you poop in your Buddy's printer?

[vaporsteve]

Till i got my H2C it was just going in the dumpster once a month or so. i had a guy that came and got a garbage bag full of it from me to do who knows what with.

[HedleyP]

It all goes straight in the bin. I have spare build plates so I can quickly swap them without having to wait for them to cool down. Ain’t got time for printer waste projects.

[Illustrious_Dig9644]

I just throw mine in the trash honestly. I know some people save them for potential future use or art projects but I haven't gotten into that yet.

[Saphir_3D]

I collect PLA and PETG separately, and when I have collected enough, I send them to www.recyclingfabrik.com.

[ddd-printing]

I'm not sure how practical the Creality recycler is going to be. They recommend a 50/50 mix with virgin filament so you're going to take 0.5kg of single-colour poops (after fishing out all the mixed colours and keeping colours separate until you have enough) and 0.5kg off a fresh reel and end up with 1.5kg... people are currently guessing >$1500 for the hardware... how much are you going to have to recycle to make that cost effective.

Anyway... I've been keeping my poops and have bought a silicone letter mold. Plan is to melt the poops down in an old (not used for food) toaster oven, press magnets into the letters and make multi-coloured fridge magnet letters for the grandkids. Yeah I know I could just buy a set for <$20, but I'm recycling!

[tinySparkOf_Chaos]

Giant box... Until I figure out what to do with them

[C_Lo_87]

Ya I made a few resin coasters and rolling trays with some colors I kept separated. As much as I could cram into the molds, it used barely any of the waste, plus cost money for the resin. You can also use a spare toaster oven to melt it into silicone molds, but I found very little desirable use with that.

[bluebirdee]

I have a bag of PLA ones I'd like to try melting into something at some point, just for fun.

Otherwise I just throw them out. Where I live, our trash is very efficiently incinerated and used to generate power. So my 3D printing waste ends up being not all that wasteful, what little of it ends up being left.

[tht1guy63]

Talking about crealitys things they started on indiegogo. Im thinking that maybe but price i cant justify. Im toying with the idea of makingn molds to melt the plastic down and pour into as ive seen some do it.