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DESIGNING A CLOSED-LOOP RECYCLING SYSTEM FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY



How Green Marketing Twists the Truths
With the community emphasis on climate change and the need for more sustainable practices increasing within recent years, green marketing...
Sep 14, 20202 min read

Zoom University: How to Avoid Feeling Distant While Socially Distancing
Now that all UC Berkeley classes have switched to an online format, many students find themselves spending most of the day hopping from...
Sep 8, 20202 min read


Team Updates: Researching Through Quarantine
In March, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the UC Berkeley campus to shut down, our team stopped all in-person meetings. For a team...
Sep 1, 20202 min read


POV: Starting a New Role Remotely
This summer, I was hired as Project Lead for this closed-loop recycling system. In the midst of the pandemic, I was excited to have...
Aug 25, 20202 min read

We Launched Our Website!
Our new website is up and running! We’ve launched this website in order to spread the news about our project and to keep an updated...
Apr 26, 20201 min read


Thank You to Our Supporting Organizations!
We wouldn't be where we are today without the help of these organizations. This project would not be possible without the help of our...
Apr 22, 20202 min read

The Path to Funding: The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)
You have a great idea. You have all these reasons why it’s a great idea. You can list all the benefits it will create and how much it...
Apr 20, 20203 min read


Granulation: What have we done? What's happening now?
On the granulation team, our main goal is to supply feedstock to the extrusion team in the form of (2-3mm) pieces of PLA. The Granulation...
Apr 14, 20202 min read


Mechanical Testing: What have we done? What’s happening now?
This year, we were able to perform our first tensile test on recycled PLA filament! Lauren and I spent the majority of the fall 2019...
Apr 11, 20202 min read


3D Printing: What have we done? What's happening now?
This year, we’ve made some exciting progress with our 3D printing. When this project first began, it took a while to produce PLA filament...
Apr 6, 20202 min read

Welcome to the 3D Printer Filament Reclamation Project Blog!
We started this blog in order to keep our community updated with our progress. Here’s a little bit about the team: We are a team of UC...
Apr 3, 20201 min read
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