Recycling Plastic into Laserable Sheets

This has been discussed several times before but, this video has been making the rounds and, might be useful for anyone pursuing this:

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Interesting! Mostly PLA from 3D printing, I gathered. I’ve also seen material made by ironing together a bunch of grocery bags—those are mostly made of hdpe or ldpe.

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Thanks for sharing this. It was interesting!

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Be very careful with plastic. I’ve fused plastic bags with an iron, but I wouldn’t think it’s safe for gloworge. Even ironing them, you have to be mindful of fumes. There’s petroleum in the plastic and not sure what else. Would want to research.

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Knowing your plastics is definitely a must. I have a bunch of scrap acrylic I would love to reuse. I think the cooling process, so it doesn’t warp, seems to be the hardest problem…

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