

3-D printers are being used to make a plethora of items, ranging from customized surgical stents to car parts and added defenses for internal organs – even guns.

What a lot of people don’t realize, however, is that the popular 3-D printing technology known as selective laser sintering, or SLS, can leave behind plenty of waste.

Two innovators who studied at the Royal College of Art have found a way to recycle that waste, though, turning it into something about as practical as anything the 3-D printers themselves are making: furniture.