Dr. Yang Presented at the International Conference on Resource Sustainability and Won the Best Presentation Award

Dr. Yang presented our latest findings on Additive Manufacturing Waste Recycling at the International Conference on Resource Sustainability 2021 and won the Best Presentation Award. Additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing) technologies have found applications in a wide range of industries such as aerospace and automobile, due to their superior manufacturing capability and design freedom enabled by the layer-wise fabrication method. Over the past decade, the adoption of additive manufacturing has evolved from rapid prototyping and tooling to rapid manufacturing of end-use products, which, on the other hand, introduced new challenges for reducing the environmental impacts and enhancing resource sustainability of additive manufacturing from a lifecycle perspective. In current literature, some research efforts have been conducted on waste recycling aiming to close to material loop and relieve the environmental consequences caused by both pre- and post-consumer wastes generated from additive manufacturing. This article provides an overview of the state-of-the-art on additive manufacturing waste recycling and identifies critical gaps for future research in this field.