[Fab] PLA: Recycle or Compost

Elijah Post elijahpost at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 18:46:27 UTC 2013


Good points, though i dont think 4043D filament goes in a matter of months, but as far as im aware years buried.—
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Snail <snailtsunami at gmail.com> wrote:

> True. However, there is a lot of finished products which are compostable
> but look & feel like plastic, so it might slip by even if it's unlabelled.
> Sorting/filtering compost may be more automatic than manual, though, so I
> can't say for sure where it would wind up unless I read up on the machines
> used...
> I read that it takes twice as long but you CAN break down PLA in a home
> compost heap - 6 months vs. 3 months. Would be neat if someone can try it
> out & verify. You probably need a real compost heap and do more than just
> bury it in the backyard. :3
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Elijah Post <elijahpost at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wouldnt be suprised if PLA is probably prone to being seperated from
>> compost because people on the other end dont know what it is.
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>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Snail <snailtsunami at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You can compost it! :)
>>>
>>> Recyling is not recommended, from what I've read, since PET is the more
>>> common recycled plastic and shouldn't be mixed with PLA. Recycling PLA
>>> specificially does not seem to be a thing, either - just compost it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Phil Spitler <phil at bonfirelabs.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Should I recycle or compost my scrap PLA in SF?
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>> Phil
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