{"id":87508,"date":"2022-09-02T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=87508"},"modified":"2022-09-06T20:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:28:15","slug":"5-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/5-239\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Plastic Waste Into Printing Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A method to convert a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin used in 3D-printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste. A team of Washington State University researchers developed a simple and efficient way to convert polylactic acid (PLA), a bio-based plastic used in products such as filament, plastic silverware and food packaging to a high-quality resin.<\/p>\n<p>A method to convert a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin used in 3D-printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste. Although it\u2019s bio-based, PLA, which is categorized as a #7 plastic, doesn\u2019t break down easily. It can float in fresh or salt water for a year without degrading. It is also rarely recycled because like many plastics, when it\u2019s melted down and re-formed, it doesn\u2019t perform as well as the original version and becomes less valuable.<\/p>\n<p>While the researchers focused on PLA for the study, they hope to apply the work to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is more common than PLA, has a similar chemical structure and presents a bigger waste problem. They have filed a provisional patent and are working to further optimize the process. The researchers are also looking into other applications for the upcycling method.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/applied-sciences\/news\/turning-plastic-waste-into-printing-material-365253\">Technology Newtworks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A method to convert a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin used in 3D-printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste. A&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,11659],"tags":[5572,1475,20818],"class_list":["post-87508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","category-science-news","tag-3d","tag-plastic-waste","tag-printing","wpcat-31-id","wpcat-11659-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/%40UPM_BioX.jpeg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87865,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87508\/revisions\/87865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}