The Million Waves Project Looks to Solve Two Global Issues at Once

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), prosthetics can involve a lot of work and expertise to produce and fit, and there is currently a shortage of 40,000 trained prosthetists in poorer countries. There also is the time and financial cost to patients, who may have to travel long distances for treatment that can take five days—to assess their need, produce a prosthesis and fit it to the residual limb. Working toward obtaining an in-house closed loop system that includes an industrial plastic shredder, extruder, air path and spooler for the filament, the organization currently has two 3D printers used to make the prosthetics.