Recycling PLA from 3D prints

Jens Dyvik and Jon Nordby did some research and experimenting on recycling 3D print waste, aswell as combining plastic and wood waste.

Upper plate: Grinded PLA.

Left plate: PLA and valchromat combined.

Rigth box: the burnt and failed results of valchromat combined with PLA.

The plastic was grinded using a household mixmaster.

This block is pure PLA casted in a box, then put under pressure by the means of vices.

This however, is the result of a failed batch of PLA and valchromat: 

Evacuating the oven from TorbjørnNordvik on Vimeo.