A Potential Long Term Solution For Plastic Waste - 3D Printed Bridge

This bridge serves as a concept for repurposed plastics allowing the recycled material to be locked in one place on land offering a structure that can benefit everyone. The vast majority of single-use recycled plastics are recycled into more single-use objects. Eventually, they will end up in the wrong hands and fall out of the recycling system potentially polluting our oceans. By repurposing recycled plastics to large 3D printed structures the material is given another chance to serve the people. Repurposing plastics may offer a long term solution to plastic waste and recent developments in Large Scale 3D Printing may have the answer.

This bridge is the first project of its scale in plastic 3D printing. As the technology is still in development, the materials for this bridge were made from virgin polymers. However, as the technology is developed, recycled materials will replace virgin polymers and large scale 3D printing will offer a long term solution to single-use plastic waste.

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