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I'm dubious of the recycling claim. The partially cured resin is dissolved in some secret solvent. Usually when you dissolve something in a solvent, the intention isn't to recover the dissolved resin. They didn't really discuss the recovery process, leading me to think it's theoretically possible, but nobody will practically do it.
Still, dissolveable supports with a single resin mix is pretty cool.
As always with plastic recycling. The whole concept of plastic recycling is only a "don't think about it, just buy it".
Unless I’m reading this too optimistically, it seems like recovering the resin just requires adding more of the original solvent, which sounds pretty good (as long as that solvent isn’t much nastier than a regular resin solvent).