3D printing is reaching more and more users every day. An estimated “6.7 million 3D printers [were] sold by the year 2020,” and that number continues to grow rapidly (Toor, 2019). With the degree of versatility and unlimited potential, 3D printing is being adopted into a number of industries and used daily.
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Post-consumer plastics (PCP) need to go through various steps before they are able to be used again as recycled material. The image below shows a condensed version of the process beginning after the collection of scrap/waste PLA.
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