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As part of a project that aims to provide people with disabilities with simple assistive devices in Colombia, the possibility of creating a PET filament that can be printed by Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) from beverage bottle waste was investigated, wi ...

MDPI2022

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

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Conversion of food and kitchen waste to value-added products

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