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[โ€“] blackbeans@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know it's a rather random rant but if we want to highlight a EU company, can we at least ensure that the website supports English? I know everyone loves their native language but people are striving to be more unified in Europe and English is the working language of the EU.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And also, please send your stuff to all EU countries, at least (they do seemingly, but plenty of others do not).

[โ€“] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also do not exploit differently abled people for cheap labor. Working programs in the so called "Werkstรคtten fรผr Behinderte" in Germany are a sweatshop for differently abled people and recyclingfabrik is using them to sort filament waste by colours for cheap.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's sad. They should be treated properly.

Yes, so right now I'm torn between recycling and worker's rights ๐Ÿฅฒ

Maybe Formfutura is a good alternative!

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Also FormFutura is a Dutch company that sells recycled PET, PLA, ABS, ASA, and TPU filament and has a website in English with good prices.

Also a recycling service of course

TIL! Thank you!

[โ€“] callcc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The big question being: what is recycled filament? What was the previous usage of that plastic? Could it be enough to just add like a few percent of the in plant waste (stuff that gets removed from machines between batches for example) to new pellets to call it recycling. I expect 90% of what's sold as recycling filament to be such a greenwashed product. I sincerely hope it's bot the case but I'm sceptic.

They give you points if you send your old print waste there. Finally somewhere to sent that stuff.