3D printing boss level

We have 28 3D printers here at Heber, and have been using them for various projects for quite a while now. We use PLA filament (polylactic acid – made from corn starch and sugar cane) which is a biodegradable plastic.  

We recently checked the stats and each 3D Printer has now, on average, printed for 273 days and has used over 35,000 meters of plastic filament (330m per 1Kg of material), equal to 106kg per machine.

We have 20 machines with the above stat’s and 8 new printers that have done ¼ of that volume each.

The total amount of PLA used is 770,000 meters in total. This is the same as going up and down Mount Kilimanjaro 65 times, the entire length of the state of Florida, or 19250 marathons.

This comes to 2.3 metric tonnes of 3D printing plastic being processed into enclosures for retro gaming products (and a few crazy arcade machines etc.). This is the same weight as a Javan rhinoceros, one of the blocks used in the Great Pyramid of Giza or the largest Allosaurus fossil.