Laboratories Inc.
Mundus oppugnat. Riposte reddimus.
Societas machinatoria quae materiam plasticam abiectam et cellulas pilarum vitae finitae in producta firma et modularia transformat.
Vide quid faciamus ↓Missio
impetus contrarius
riposte /rɪˈpoʊst/ n. In arte gladiatoria, celer impetus contrarius statim post propulsatum adversarii ictum illatus.
(flumen purgamentorum)
(collige et digere)
(refingere)
(productum perfectum)
Canada singulis annis 5,152 kt materiae plasticae abicit et solum fere 6.5%1 eius rursus tractat; pilae et machinae in scrinia coniciuntur cum maxima parte vitae utilis adhuc intus relicta. Riposte Laboratories condita est ut hoc directe aggrederetur: materiam ex flumine purgamentorum recipiens eamque ut producta firma et bene fabricata reddens.
Locali modo operamur: materias recipientes quae aliter abicerentur, eas in producta utilia fabricantes, easque communitatibus unde venerunt reddentes.
Plastic Works
formatio per iniectionem in ansa locali
Materia plastica ex fontibus localibus colligitur, deinde comminuitur, digeritur, et per iniectionem denuo fabricatur.
- Materia prima: pura PS & ABS post-industrialia (rami exemplarium)
- Processus: comminue → dige → sicca → per iniectionem forma
- Exitus: bona firma reformata, domi formata
- Radius: localis. Hic collecta, hic refecta, hic usurpata
- Principium: materiam in usu tenere, prope domum
PS et ABS post-industrialia (resinae in omni exemplari) pura sunt, unius resinae, et homogenea2, at nullum programma BC materias plasticas a negotiis accipit nec ullus emptor localis pro eis solvit3. Illam ansam localem tenemus: collectio communitatis modo, tractatio domestica, et producta formata in regionem unde venerunt reddita.
Breves ansae copiarum. Producta diuturna. Nulla oceani vectura.
Project HEX
potentia modularis reciperata
Project HEX cellulas lithii reciperatas in tessellam potentiae hexagonalem modularem vertit: tabulam energiae quae in seriem se inserit et superficiem aedificii vestit.
- Cellulae: 6 × cylindricae Li-ion, 45 × 13 mm · reciperatae et gradatae
- Topologia: una cellula per marginem, 6S (in serie) conexa
- Energia: 6 × 2.41 Wh = 14.46 Wh per tessellam
- Facies superior: tabula photovoltaica integrata · se ipsam recreans
- Margines: magnetici · tessellae in series tessellantes coeunt
- Accessorium: scrinium magnete affixum ad interfaciem + telemetriam
- Geometria: hexagonalis, super structuras geodaesicas tessellat
- Status: in progressu · brevetum pendens
Unaquaeque unitas sex cellulas cylindricas 45 × 13 mm mensas fert, una in quoque hexagoni margine sedente et in serie conexa. Sex reciperatae cellulae 2.41 Wh 14.46 Wh per tessellam ad exitum 6S praebent.
Facies superior tabula solaris est, ita ut omnis tessella parvus generator sit qui suas cellulas replet. Margines magnetici unitates coire sinunt, iidemque magnetes scrinii moduli optionalis capaces sunt ad seriem tractandam.
Quia hexagona tessellant, series sine intervallis crescunt et curvas compositas circumdant; geometria facta est ut domum geodaesicam potentia se recreante vestiat.
Project SPOOL
water bottles to 3D-printer filament
Project SPOOL reclaims clear PET drink bottles into 1.75 mm 3D-printer filament, then closes the loop inside a local makerspace: the Okanagan Regional Library, Kelowna branch.
- Feedstock: clear #1 PET water bottles · rinsed; caps, rings, labels removed
- Method: each bottle cut into a continuous ribbon, drawn through a heated die
- Output: 1.75 mm rPET filament · the standard desktop-printer gauge
- Second stream: leftover spools & failed prints from the makerspace
- Loop: reclaimed filament wound onto returned spools, back to the printers
- Showcase: Okanagan Regional Library · Kelowna branch makerspace
- Status: pilot · one branch first, then the regional network
PET water bottles are the cleanest, best-sorted plastic in the waste stream, and close kin to the PETG desktop printers already run. We rinse each bottle, cut it into a continuous ribbon, and draw that ribbon through a heated die to form 1.75 mm filament, using the technique open-sourced by the Polyformer project.4 Bottle in, filament out; no pellets, no ocean freight.
The showcase partner is the Okanagan Regional Library's Kelowna branch, whose public makerspace runs 3D printers and generates two waste streams of its own5: leftover filament spools and failed prints. We take both; empty spools are refilled with reclaimed filament and returned, and print waste is reground back into the stream.
One building, one closed loop. Bottles from the branch become filament for the branch's printers, wound on the branch's own returned spools.
Nosce Esh
insigne societatis
Figura in signo nominis nostri inserta est esh (ea/eius), insigne Riposte Laboratories.
- Munus: insigne societatis
- Pronomina: ea/eius
- Repraesentat: subtilitatem, celeritatem, impetum contrarium
- Exemplar: scaccatum
- Status: media in riposte
Esh principia nomini nostro subiecta repraesentat: subtilitatem, celeritatem, et actionem consultam; seriam machinationem cum propria identitate peractam.
Contactus
nos continge
Sive materiam plasticam avertendam habes, sive machinas recyclandas, sive inceptum tractandum, libenter a te audiemus.
esh@ripostelabs.xyzFontes
notae datorum
- Statistics Canada · Ratio fluxus physici materiae plasticae, 2022 (edita 2026): 5,152 kt abiecta, fere 6.5% in globulos, ramenta et fibras rursus tractata. statcan.gc.ca
- Association of Plastic Recyclers · resina post-industrialis plerumque purior et homogenior est, maioris in mercatu valoris quam materia post-consumptiva. plasticsrecycling.org
- Recycling Council of BC · nullum statutum BC programma materias plasticas a negotiis accipit; index emptionis Merlin Plastics editus PET/PP/PE comprehendit sed PS et ABS omittit. rcbc.ca · merlinplastics.com
- Polyformer (Reiten Cheng) · open-source, mostly 3D-printed machine that recycles PET bottles into 1.75 mm filament by cutting each bottle into a ribbon and drawing it through a heated nozzle; design released rather than patented. reiten.design/polyformer
- Okanagan Regional Library · public makerspace with 3D printers (Kelowna Downtown and Kelowna-Rutland branches; Makerbot, Bambu Lab X1C, Prusa i3 MK3S+), filament billed at $0.10/g with three free attempts. orl.bc.ca/makerspace