Consumables

PLA stands for Polylactic acid and is a non-toxic, eco-friendly biodegradable polymer usually made from plant based materials. It’s a widely used plastic, especially for food packaging. The fact that it’s biodegradable also make it useful in medicine, for the types of implants that need to simply dissolve away in your body. Check out some […]

ABS or Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene is one of the most versatile plastics. It’s a petrochemical plastic, and it doesn’t biodegrade easily, but this is a good thing: it lasts, and we generally want the objects around us to last! If you’re like me, you’re probably surrounded by plastic objects, and more than half of them are probably

Intro There are 3 + 1 types of plastic that are used commonly for making 3D pen filaments. They have different looks and feels, different strength and flexibility profile, and different melting temperatures. (Generally speaking, the maximum temperature that a pen ca achieve is the main determinant of what plastics it can use.) The most