RopeBot is endorsed by the UN Program - Education for sustainability
Among other interesting developments, RopeBot has demonstrated that 3d printing can play a vital role in the recycling of plastic waste. Tasmania has a huge commercial aquaculture industry. This industry is very reliant on plastics for all its operations -- a sector very hungry for growth! The bulk of materials are high quality poprophelyne rope, a material that can be viably converted into many items including: 3dp filament; railway sleepers; concrete fill & structuring; sheeting materials for laser and CNC routing to name a few.
Thousands of tons of plastic comes to this pristine island every year for the commercial aquaculture alone -- later that plastic is dumped as landfill or lost to the oceans. Some more information on RopeBot from -- Google search
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