How can “Microfactories” to convert plastic waste

A new era of 3D printing helps “Microfactories” to convert plastic waste into “highly competition” products suitable for use in the construction industry, according to the Veena Sahajwalla Center, Professor and Founder Director of the UNSW Sustainable Research and Technology Center.

Speaking to Mandy Drury of CNBC at the SYDNEY summit for innovation in Schneider Electric on Monday in Australia, Sahajwalla said that the manufacturers had to direct their thinking about sustainability towards profitability.

“It is not a matter of saying, well, I make it because it is green. In fact, this must be the last thing. The first thing that should be profitable, does it work? Does the right performance appear?” She said.

This SMART thinking pushed 100 % plastic threads made of 100 % waste, which was obtained from “all types of old printers”.

It is built in excessive “microfactories” excessive and automated to produce custom products.

“If this (plastic -waste plastic) is now possible in a 3D printer, can you actually print a full range of products?” She said.

One of these products already made is “clamps” – or blocks – used in construction and construction projects.

“Imagine all construction and construction projects as you need plants and imagine whether you should wait for a long time for the source of these parts and components,” said Sahajwalla.

Large expenses on plants during construction projects mean that companies often buy unused.

SAAJWALLA says the SMART 3D printed alternative, which was built in Sydney Microfactory using plastic threads made of old plastic waste, may eventually reduce costs.

“You can speak literally to the local Microfactory and say, can I make this at a comparative price and the appropriate performance?”

“This is the place where accurate techniques came. To close the gap between what is seen as a waste on the one hand, and on the other hand, do something high -performance, high technology and closing competitively.”

Hydrogen Revolution?

Independent trucks and buses, which are clean, hydrogen -based energy, on the threshold of road hitting, thanks to the technology that is still in its cradle.

Scott Brown, the Managing Director of Pure Hydrogen, told CNBC that his company now has a hydrogen garbage truck in Adeleide, which emanates from “Do not pollute diesel, which can be harmful to your health if you breathe”, as well as less than the inhabitants of pollution in the morning.

The prices of fuel cells will be expected to decrease in the next 10 to 15 years.

Car manufacturers Hondaand Toyota and Hyundai It has already adopted more fuel cell engineering.

Fuel cells indicate the use of hydrogen or other fuel to produce clean electricity.

“There is not much of the materials concerned,” said Brown.

He added that the prices of fuel cells due to their increasingly costly production have decreased “about 50 % in the past three years.”

Brown predicts that the prices of clean energy battery cells “will drop significantly” in the next decade, as Chinese companies adopt more hydrogen compounds.

according to The numbers issued by the Small and Medium Companies Research Group in South Korea In November, sales of Hydrogen commercial vehicles in China exceeded the number of purchases around the world.