What is Rendbobine?
Rendbobine is a system set up by Francofil to give a second life to its empty spools and PLA scraps.
- Are you tired of your empty spools piling up?
- What if we took them back for free?
- What if we also took care of your Francofil PLA scraps?
- And all this, in the simplest way possible?
How does it work?
With each order on our site, we include a prepaid Colissimo shipping label in your package. Please keep it. As soon as you have accumulated 10 empty Francofil spools, put them together in a cardboard box of your choice. Take the opportunity to fill the box with your Francofil PLA scraps.
Close your box securely and stick the prepaid Colissimo shipping label on it. Your package is now stamped and ready to go.
To send it to us, you can drop it off:
- At the post office (max. 30kg)
- At a retailer in the La Poste network (max. 20kg). List of drop-off points on https://www.laposte.fr/particulier/outils/trouver-un-point-de-retrait-ou-de-depot-colissimo
It is not necessary to have the post office stamp the package upon deposit.
Why 10 spools?
By choosing La Poste's distribution channel, we are favoring an already existing transport network. Our empty spools and PLA scraps travel on daily "lines" already in place.
However, to limit the carbon impact, it is clear that shipping your empty spools one by one is a bad solution.
10 seems like the right number to us because it allows you to return neither too few nor too many spools, in a box that will have a reasonable volume and that will be easy for you to handle.
Why do we only take back our empty spools and PLA waste?
Simply because we believe it is normal to take back our waste at our expense. But we do not think it is normal to take back other people's waste. We must all assume our share by proposing solutions and approaches that promote the circular economy. Buying Francofil filaments, all manufactured without exception at our production site in Normandy, guarantees that your filament scraps and Francofil spools will live again after being with you.
OUR SPOOLS
We have selected spools that meet our requirements and guarantee us a winding that we control. Inserting spools that we have not selected into our production flow would involve reviewing our winding steps and adapting them to each existing model. This would no longer allow us to guarantee consistent and homogeneous winding.
OUR FILAMENTS
We select our suppliers with care and caution. This allows us to control our raw materials and the entire chain, right up to the dispatch of our spools to you.
Recovering waste from other brands no longer guarantees this control. We do not know the origin, the grades of materials used, the additives used, the colorants added, etc. We would no longer be able to offer you the quality you seek by placing your trust in us.
Through this approach, we wish to reinforce the practice of good usage. Let's not wait until it's too late to adopt responsible 3D printing behaviors.