Just a quick update for you all. Our team has met up with Prof. Scanlon, who will be overseeing us through this project, along with the two other teams, ‘Cewl Guys 101’ and the girls of ‘Green is the New Black, who will also be talking this project together with us. In most recent years, the 3D printing trend has hit the world by storm. However, 3D printing is a very big waste producing activity. Most items that are printed are used as prototypes that are looked to be improved on and are thrown out right away, or if the printing process messes up then the whole product is thrown out! So together with Prof. Scanlon, we divided the responsibilities of the project to help reduce the wastes being produced by 3D printing between the three groups. The ‘Cewl Guys 101’ will be handling the implementation of recycling cans to gather plastic to be made and reused into 3D printing filament. The ‘Green is The New Black’ girls will be handling the public relations side of the project to get the information about this project out there to the public. And finally, there’s us, ‘The Avengers’. Our mission will be to gather the plastics from the bins and track the data and statistics of what goes through those recycling bins once they’re implemented! This will all be happening on our very own campus here at Penn State Berks, in the Gaige building. This will be a great testing ground for our project to see how effective this idea will be and, hopefully with the right results, this concept can be applied to other places with access to 3D printers to help lessen the wastes it produces!
Peter Chu, Antonio Agudio, and Dennys Chocano Castillo
-‘The Avengers’