Could plastic garbage from the ocean be used for 3D printers for printing guns like FGC-9?
what if we freeze the (micro)plastics into floating aircraft carrierscall it placrete
>>64624726Yes, you can dven just filter out microplastics out of tap water and build a fully functioning assault rifle.
>>64624726no because the effort of grinding up and extruding a bunch of plastic trash isn't worth the result of a roll of mystery meat filament that probably has substandard QC.
>>64625657sign me up
>>64624726>couldyes>shouldnowhy trawl a garbage patch when fresh nylon is better and can be very effectively used on a printer? why not use biodegradable corn polymer like PLA+? why not use already commonly recycled ABS/ASA?the garbage patch needs to be dealt with, somehow. it's all basically carbon and a little bit of other shit, so we know it can hypothetically be metabolized by organisms. just gotta make it happen and make huge-ass Algae Tankers to eat it up to make biodiesel
>>64625677you wouldn't do it this way. you would have it sorted like it already is and turned back into raw material. mystery meat bullshit is useless to everyone so we don't make that
>>64625634>which isn't the case in the USIt's absolutely the case
>>64624726Short answer, no.Long answer, still no but for reasons. Filament plastics are very specific types and purities of plastic. You want pure (enough) ABS or PLA for adhesion and strength, moreso for printing resins. Plastic waste is all manner of plastics, elastomers, bits of metal, seawood, wood, paper. For collectable plastics, the best recycling is to burn it in filtered incinerators. The best reuse is probably things like those plastic-wood chip composite benches because it can be incinerated afterwards. For recycling thermoplastics like the HDPE in shopping bags that can be readily separated in the waste stream, something like a Kingston Press can turn them into flat stock. The meme about ten years ago was "why can't we 3d print used soda bottles" and the answer there is simply that it's the wrong type of thermoplastic, and no one liked that answer. Many of these materials could be chipped and mixed with a binder, then printed but it's a waste of effort. Just collect and incinerate it, along with the litterers.
>>64624726We need to nuke flips
>>64625657if we do this for sixteen generations they will still be brown
It's literal garbage plastic, degraded beyond any usefulness other than fuelBut I was thinking: what if instead of 3d printing components, what was 3d printed instead was a series of jigs which enabled one to semi-accurately grind a bolt or some other component out of a ... large bolt?
>>64625738>biodegradable corn polymer like PLA+?Every time I see a "biodegradable" packaging I wonder if it really roots into fertilizer entirely or just breaks down into fine microplastic dust.
>>64626834I suspect they just burn it. I mean, there's not much firewood in desert places like Sudan.
>>64624726No but they use it to make polyester clothes so you end up wearing the trash some jeet threw away that ended up in a Bangladeshi factory and turned into plastic threads. Ever notice how polyester gives a slight burn when you're wearing it? That's the chemicals soaking into your skin.
>>64628064Imagine them all fighting over whose turn it is to 'pray to the angel' again.
>>64625638Your mother
>>64628346>breaks down into fine microplastic dust.This.
>>64624726How the fuck if the Philippines beating China and India?
>>64624726I assume all the different types of plastic in the garbage would make for a poor base material.Don't worry, Europe will save us.
>>64632856A bunch of cunts send their trash to the Flips, who just dump it into the ocean for them, for a fee. It's Green, you see.
Crazy chinkoid crashout
>>64624726not all plastics are recyclable and the quality of random trash plastics is going to be poorwe should 3d print clothes for third worlders
>>64636150Not anymore. Western nations stopped this once the media caught wind. It's actually Flips doing the dumping now because they get everything wrapped in plastic from China and they don't care about the environment. The people there don't give a fuck and just throws shit anywhere. No joke, there was a Philippine exchange student in my uni class back in the day. This guy would just toss any wrapping or trash on the ground even if there was a trashcan close by. When he got called out on it he said they just do that back home and that the city pays people to clean up. Dude was a chain smoking asshole who eventually got deported for overstaying his student visa.
chinkshill can you dump your Taiwan folder?I want to poke fun of a Dutch co worker about them getting chinked
>>64625738>the garbage patch needs to be dealt with, somehow. it's all basically carbon and a little bit of other shit, so we know it can hypothetically be metabolized by organisms. just gotta make it happen and make huge-ass Algae Tankers to eat it up to make biodieselthats too much workdesu trump said he was getting back into nuclear testing, we should just detonate an H-bomb on that bitch as call it good
>>64628346I never buy biodegradable plastic bags or other packaging stuff because just falls apart into (ultra)fine particles that will remain in the soil for another 10+ years. If they are biodegradable you need a special composter that creates environment (heat/pressure/humidity requirements) that allow the plastic to "dissolve" and even that does not secure it's 100% ECO friendly.
>>64624726No, most of that crap is non-recyclable.
>>64628227people have been exploring this sort of idea for a while actuallythe rebel 9 follows a very similar philosophy for its bolt
Funny, the plastic containers I held in the Phil were really thin compared to take-out ones we have States-side. Like, any thinner and they wouldn't have any rigidity and be plastic bags. I guess it's the quantity.
>>64624733kek
>>64624726Yes it would work, but the quality would be poor because you have a mix of PET, PETG, PP, HDPE, PU and others. The specific plastics all have different ideal working temperatures. You would need to adjust your print settings for the current mix of polymers. Contaminants will also degrade print quality.Sorting and cleaning the plastics will be mandatory to having any success. I'm sure there are methods to stratify amd sort bulk microplastics, but good luck, you're probably better off burning difficult plastics as a heat source (after drying in the sun)
> 3D printers for printing gunsbruh it's nearly 2026people printing death drones, guided missiles, unguided mortars, and anti personnel mines, not antiques.lel
Lets take all that plastic, melt it down into compressed cubes, shoot it into the sun or a black hole. Once the plastic is out of sight, we need not pay it any mind.
>>64624726Most plastic degrades under UV light, with some exceptions like ASA. Also, some plastic like PLA is chemically rather fragile. Essentially, all plastic organic polymers are either vulnerable to UV light, high temperatures or chemically not very inert. There are some exception which are great at specific areas like PTFE (Teflon)/ PFA for unmatched chemical resistance but they are vulnerable to UV light. Then there is of course PEEK, a high performance polymer which does kind of have all the great properties you would love, but it's also supremely expensive.
>>64628346why do we wrap everything in plastic instead of using (waxed) paper anyway?
>>64660246
>>64637360The graph was made before the stoppage
>>64624726Why are the philippiniggers mad about being a landfill? Where else would they get their pagpag from?
>>64658611Yeah, why don't we just eject the plastic from the environment?
>>64632856Singe use wrappers for basic household consumables (soap, shampoo, shaving cream, etc.)
>>64677093>>64680222Based trips. Butcher their entire (((diaspora))) in the streets, too.
>>64624726What wars are the fish fighting?
>>64624726Filthy eastoids.
>>64680447Why would you do that, lol, they're fucking ugly. Their women in particular look like they're covered in a layer of shit.
>>64636072idk what the outrage over these caps is. its a fucking pain in the ass to constantly have caps building up somewhere like on my desk or in the storage compartment in my truck. always building up stashes of fucking bottle caps everywhere.
Free Bangsamoro
>>64632856>be a first world cunt>green this, environent that>send all your waste to some poor shithole>poor shithole dumps it in the ocean or burns it>who cares though, we're green!
>>64695844
>>64695844These countries aren't dumping other countries waste to make this, have you ever visited any of these shitholes.
