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Reply To: 3D printing and the enviroment #teamseas

November 3, 2021 at 4:47 pm #1691011

jamescutts

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Very similar sort of realisation myself @captainventanus, its not stopped my buying things but i now think twice before I do and the environmental impact is a nice reminder to not go mental.

I’ve been trying to purchase my hobby items from more local companies to try and limit the global shipping, being in the UK and next to the lead belt thats thankfully pretty easy. Same with the large Kickstarter games, I just cant stand the crazyness of recieving a huge box, shipped at expense both monetary and environmentally halfway round the work for it be hardly played, the likes of Mythic was the big wake up call for me on this, minis in a box 10x the size needed.

Intresting thought on going the SLA printer route and minimising waste. I sort of regret buying my PLA printer, its just gobbled upgrades or spare parts, manily just sits in a corner, has little resale value and made me realise i would have been better spending more on a Prusa, that while expensive would just work, saving waste, less shipping distance on it, no real need to keep tweaking of upgrading and more enviromentally friendly spools using card.