Make a 3D Printer By Reinventing E-Waste

A large part of the recycling process involves re-purposing. Besides keeping your electronics running for as long as possible, there are many creative things you can do with your old electronics. Some innovators have turned gutted out CRT monitors into fish tanks or cat beds, others have turned keyboards into jewelry or pencil holders. In 2013, Kodjo Afate Gnikou from Togo in West Africa got very creative and built the world’s first 3-D printer…out of electronic waste! He came up with the idea after assembling a 3D printer kit and noticed many complications with the process. His goal was to create a 3D printer that was inexpensive and easy to replicate. Gnikou’s printer only cost him about $100 to make, by reusing parts of old computers, printers, and scanners that he found in a scrap yard. Gnikou hopes that his invention will help make the world notice Africa as a contender in the tech market. “My dream is to give young people hope and to show that Africa, too, has its place on the global market when it comes to technology. We are able to create things.”

Ghana’s capital, Accra, has become one of the many dumping grounds of e-waste from the US and Europe. Hundreds of tons of discarded computers and industrial equipment are dumped each month, including usable spare parts and equipment.

Today, you can find many instructions online detailing how to make your own inexpensive 3D printer out of e-waste. Happy creating!

While it is fantastic to see someone like Gnikou make such great use of the e-waste, it still doesn’t tackle the source of the problem. GreenCitizen exists to make sure electronics don’t get dumped in landfills or sent overseas to places like West Africa.

For more information about keeping electronics out of landfills, give us a call at (650) 493-8700. We also welcome you to stop by our Burlingame EcoCenter where we offer convenient electronics recycling drop off and business pickup services.

James Kao

James Kao is the founder/CEO of GreenCitizen, which provides products and services that help make every day Earth Day. He's passionate about data and sustainability, with a deep background in launching, funding, and managing successful tech companies. James enjoys spending quality time with his family, hiking, traveling, watching well-made documentaries, and eating good healthy food. read more »

Category: Circular Economy, Green Blog Tags: #ewaste, 3d printer, africa, e-waste, electronics, Landfills, laura ward, recycling, west africa ewaste

18 Comments on “Make a 3D Printer By Reinventing E-Waste”

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3D printing encompasses many forms of technology and material as 3D printing is used in almost all industries. It is important to see it as clusters of diverse industries with different applications.

This article presents to its readers a very innovative idea of how we can change the tons of e-wastes into a 3d printer . The article is immenesely helpful as it provides us with a 3d printer which is inexpensive and very useful at the same time.

As recycling is the first priority so that building a 3D printer by using e-waste is a creative effort.

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It was fascinating and amazing to read that he made a 3D printer under $100! Where most people make excuses he proved that nothing is impossible.

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Kodjo has a really cool story, I wouldn’t know where to begin in making my own 3D printer. It is cool that recycling electronics and printers lead to this invention. I want to get better with technology so that I could build something like this.

Making 3D printer by using e-waste is really a creative thought.

This is the best way of utilization of e wasting. This will make recycling. This is really a creative thought making a 3D printer through e-waste like assembling 3D printer kit.

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