A startup called Vitriform3D has developed an innovative 3D printing process that makes use of the abundance of post-consumer glass. In collaboration with experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), the fledgling firm is already making high-value products from waste glass material that may have ended up in a landfill.

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Ordinarily, glass recyclers are quite fussy with colors and grades of glass, etc., and a lot of energy is used to melt and reform post-consumer glass to make new products/packaging. Vitriform3D doesn’t seem as particular, as all its process requires is crushed bottles.…