The world's first additive manufacturing platform fed by "impossible" waste. We turn chip packets and metallised plastic into custom 3D-printable designs. No filament. No virgin top-up.
Most 3D printing today runs on virgin petrochemical filament. Even the "recycled" filaments are rarely recycled multi-layered plastic, because almost no one can process MLP, let alone tune it for additive manufacturing. The "additive" in additive manufacturing has, until now, mostly been additive to the world's hydrocarbon habit.
TRASH3D flips the input. We extract material from the same chip packets and metallised waste that most facilities incinerate, compound it with a proprietary additive blend, and feed it straight into a pellet printer. No filament middleman. No virgin top-up. Just impossible waste, printed.
TRASH3D sits alongside VerdiCycle MLP and VerdiCycle Textiles as our third technology platform. The feedstock is VerdiFLX, our recycled polyolefin material, tuned with a proprietary additive blend designed specifically for additive manufacturing. The full chain (waste collection, extraction, compounding, printing) sits under one roof.
Recycled polyolefin compositions designed for additive manufacturing. Filed under our IP portfolio of 8 patents (1 granted, 7 pending).
We bypass the filament step entirely. Our pellet printer handles VerdiFLX-derived material directly: lower waste, faster iteration, better economics on volume.
Collection, extraction, compounding, printing, all integrated. No separate filament import. No outsourced compounder. Full traceability from chip packet to finished piece.
Every TRASH3D object carries a fact most printers can't claim: it started life as something the world had given up on.
The world's first 3D-printed vase from chip packets. Larger format. Functional design. Every layer traceable to the packets it came from.
No filament conversion. No virgin top-up. Pure pellet print, pure chip-packet origin.
World's first 3D-printed chess piece from chip packets. Stress-tested. Game-ready.
Functional, tactile, every grid square traceable to a real packet of chips.
Because if you're going to redefine what plastic can be, you may as well have fun doing it.
No incineration. No landfill. No virgin polymer. Just five well-documented steps from kirana store to finished piece.
Someone buys a packet of chips in Pune. Twenty minutes later, the packet is rubbish. Globally, less than 1% ever gets recycled.
Our waste-picker partners (employed, contracted, ESOP-eligible) sort and aggregate MLP at source through our scrap-shop network.
VerdiCycle separates the layers chemo-mechanically. No 500°C pyrolysis. Polyolefins flow into VerdiFLX. Residuals into VerdiMIX.
Recovered polyolefins are blended with our proprietary additive package. Tuned for flow, layer adhesion, and print stability.
Our pellet printer takes the compound straight to print. No filament conversion. No middleman. Object out, story embedded.
The deeper technical view, stage by stage.
We source MLP directly from waste-picker-led scrap shops in Pune. The hardest waste, collected at the point closest to the streets it came from.
Our patented chemo-mechanical process operates at 100-120°C and 1-2 ATM. Water-based. No organic solvents. Recovered polyolefins flow into VerdiFLX. Residuals route to VerdiMIX, zero waste.
This is where TRASH3D earns its IP. VerdiFLX is blended with a proprietary additive package designed specifically for additive manufacturing, tuning melt-flow, reducing warping, improving inter-layer bonding.
Our pellet printer prints straight from compound. We bypass filament extrusion entirely, lower waste, faster iteration, better economics for low-to-medium-volume runs. Best for medium-to-large pieces with simple-to-moderate geometry.
We're not pretending TRASH3D replaces injection moulding for million-unit runs. It does something injection moulding can't, small batches, complex geometries, full traceability per piece, stories printed into the object.
Vases, homeware, decor, lifestyle pieces with provenance built in. Each unit traceable to its source waste.
Faster, cheaper iteration cycles for product designers, with circular feedstock instead of virgin filament.
Parts where injection-mould tooling doesn't make commercial sense. Small batches, custom geometries, fast turnaround.
Limited drops, premium gifting, installations and brand experiences with a story consumers can scan.
Medium-to-large pieces with simple-to-moderate geometry. Durability over fine-detail.
High-detail miniatures or production runs where surface finish needs to match injection moulding.
Virgin plastic is soulless by design, hydrocarbons stripped of any history the moment they leave the cracker. Most "recycled" plastic is soulless too, anonymous flake from anonymous waste.
TRASH3D is different. Every batch carries its origin (the chip packet), its people (the workers who sorted and ran the line), its proof (the certificate signed before it left the plant), and its story (the QR you can scan on the finished piece).
That's the soul. That's what brands buy.
A side-by-side, honest comparison.
| Virgin Filament 3D Printing | TRASH3D Pellet Printing | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Virgin petrochemical pellets, extruded to filament | MLP waste extracted via VerdiCycle, compounded for AM |
| Filament step | Required (energy + waste) | Eliminated, direct pellet print |
| Carbon footprint | Virgin polymer baseline (+1.8-2 kg CO₂e/kg for PE/PP) | Net-negative at commercial scale (with waste-diversion credit) |
| Process waste | High (filament extrusion scrap, support material) | Low (direct pellet, recoverable supports) |
| Traceability | None, polymer history begins at the cracker | Per-batch QR, provenance from waste source to finished part |
| Best for | Fine-detail miniatures, established geometries | Medium-to-large pieces, low-volume custom, story-led production |
| Regulatory readiness | Standard | EU CSDDD audit-ready, REACH compliant, food-contact tested on parent material |
TRASH3D is younger than VerdiFLX or VerdiPTA, and we're transparent about that. What's locked in: the patent, the supply chain, the world firsts, the working pellet printer, the design objects in market. What's coming: broader format range, industrial-grade durability validation, AI-tuned grade formulation, and on-demand additive manufacturing fed directly from local waste streams. If you want to be early on a platform that genuinely has nowhere to go but up, this is the moment.
ML models predicting print performance before compounding, cross-platform with our 3,000+ experiment dataset.
Larger build volumes, more material grades, broader part-category validation.
Print from your city's waste, in your city. The shortest possible supply chain.
We're up for building. Whether you're a designer with a brief, a brand exploring a limited drop, a maker testing circular feedstock, or a researcher who wants to push the chemistry, send us the idea. Or come visit the lab in Pune and watch a chip packet become an object.
