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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #222 Revisited: The future of 3D printing
Description: In episode #221, Engineering Matters looked at a new way of manufacturing feedstocks for plastics. This approach will eliminate the use for oil products, instead making use of plant-based materials, which will also help remove carbon from the atmosphere.
But eliminating the use of finite oil resources is only one part of the circular economy. This week, we wanted to take a dip into the archive, to look at a technology that could help close the loop in the plastics supply chain: 3D printing.
Back in 2019, we looked at a device called the Refabricator. This was...