In recent years, 3D printing has become a manufacturing resource used in small to large-scale projects from prototyping products to 3D-printed houses.
Jason Amri, a student and Schulich Leader in the Faculty of Mathematics, says he has been 3D printing for more than a decade and eventually started accumulating a lot of plastic waste from his 3D-printed projects. He explains that this has become a problem globally where 3D-printed waste is rarely recycled and ends up in landfills.
To address this problem, Amri co-founded 3cycle — a University of Waterloo student-run venture which uses a localized circular supply chain to collect, recycle and transform 3D-printed waste into brand new filament to give back to the community.
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