Environmental Impacts of Distributed Manufacturing from 3-D Printing of Polymer Components and Products

Authors: Joshua Pearce | Natural & Applied Sciences Environmental Chemistry Research 6 pages 2,567 words

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Although additive layer manufacturing is well established for rapid prototyping the low throughput and historic costs have prevented mass-scale adoption. The recent development of the RepRap, an open source self-replicating rapid prototyper, has made low-cost 3-D printers readily available to the public at reasonable prices (

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