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    text: "First of all you have to collects all the plastic waste that came from your 3D print like supports or corrupted prints\nDivide it in type of plastic like PLA, PETG, ABS etc..."
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    text: "Now we place all our chopped plastic in the 1X1MT mold, we put it into the sheetpress and we create our upcycled plastic sheet"
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    text: "Now we put our 1X1MT sheet, cutted in 35X35CM pieces under the CNC and we create rouded pieces with a diameter of 30CM"
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