Sustainable Cosplay Facts
Did you know about these facts? Well, now you do! Keep them in mind and maybe share them among your fellow cosplayer friends!
43% of our surveyed cosplayers accumulate about a small-sized trash bag worth of waste after every cosplay crafting session. While 41% accumulate about a medium-sized trash bag worth of waste.
Cosplayers can spend about Php0 (nothing!) to Php12,000 on props and costumes! And this is not including the amount they spend on traveling and attending conventions.
The most used material in cosplay crafting is fabric with about 84% of cosplayers doing so! Paints are a close 2nd as a given material.
22% of cosplayers are thrifters and/or reuse their old clothes for their costumes!
Feature: 3D Printing in the Cosplay Scene
Some cosplayers have opted to use 3D printing techniques in their cosplay crafts, mainly pertaining to their props. They say that it provides quality output and would make it easier than to cut materials by yourself. But the question is:
“Is 3D printing sustainable?”
From what we have gathered, cosplayers using 3D prints for their cosplays have honestly admitted that 3D printing does produce inevitable waste most of the time.
What makes this worse is that you can’t really recycle such failed pieces, and the Philippines don’t necessarily have facilities to accommodate such.
What Exactly are Sustainable Practices in Terms of Cosplay?
One of the cosplayers we interviewed, Cosplayer Gelo Grayson, is a professional cosplay prop maker, and 3D is his main source of these crafts. He has shared that the plastic filament used for most 3D printing is PLA (Polyactic Acid), which sources from starch instead of crude oil. Although better than the latter, this type of filament is marketed to be biodegradable, but really, it is only partly true.
3D printing may be closely leaning to not being sustainable. But one thing to keep in mind is that just because you use such material doesn’t mean that you are immediately a threat to the environment. Cosplayer Gelo Grayson is an example of someone who, despite being a 3D printer, is still a firm advocate of sustainability and does his best to still incorporate sustainability in his crafts. (You can check out our feature video on him in our videos tab!)
The key to an overall sustainable cosplay is to minimize waste; this means that you should reuse and recycle as much as you can and do your best to opt against always buying new material. Remember, sustainable cosplaying is the actions you, as a cosplayer, do, not the materials you use.
Sustainable Cosplay Facts
Did you know about these facts? Well, now you do! Keep them in mind and maybe share them among your fellow cosplayer friends!
43% of our surveyed cosplayers accumulate about a small-sized trash bag worth of waste after every cosplay crafting session. While 41% accumulate about a medium-sized trash bag worth of waste.
Cosplayers can spend about Php0 (nothing!) to Php12,000 on props and costumes! And this is not including the amount they spend on traveling and attending conventions.
The most used material in cosplay crafting is fabric! With about 84% of cosplayers doing so.
22% of cosplayers are thrifters and/or reuse their old clothes for their costumes!
Feature: 3D Printing in the Cosplay Scene
Some cosplayers have opted to use 3D printing techniques in their cosplay crafts, mainly pertaining to their props. They say that it provides quality output and would make it easier than to cut materials by yourself. But the question is:
“Is 3D printing sustainable?”
From what we have gathered, cosplayers using 3D prints for their cosplays have honestly admitted that 3D printing does produce inevitable waste most of the time.
What makes this worse is that you can’t really recycle such failed pieces, and the Philippines don’t necessarily have facilities to accommodate such.
What Exactly are Sustainable Practices in Terms of Cosplay?
One of the cosplayers we interviewed, Cosplayer Gelo Grayson, is a professional cosplay prop maker, and 3D is his main source of these crafts. He has shared that the plastic filament used for most 3D printing is PLA (Polyactic Acid), which sources from starch instead of crude oil. Although better than the latter, this type of filament is marketed to be biodegradable, but really, it is only partly true.
3D printing may be closely leaning to not being sustainable. But one thing to keep in mind is that just because you use such material doesn’t mean that you are immediately a threat to the environment. Cosplayer Gelo Grayson is an example of someone who, despite being a 3D printer, is still a firm advocate of sustainability and does his best to still incorporate sustainability in his crafts. (You can check out our feature video on him in our videos tab!)
The key to an overall sustainable cosplay is to minimize waste; this means that you should reuse and recycle as much as you can and do your best to opt against always buying new material. Remember, sustainable cosplaying is the actions you, as a cosplayer, do, not the materials you use.
Sustainable Cosplay Facts
Did you know about these facts? Well, now you do! Keep them in mind and maybe share them among your fellow cosplayer friends!
43% of our surveyed cosplayers accumulate about a small-sized trash bag worth of waste after every cosplay crafting session. While 41% accumulate about a medium-sized trash bag worth of waste.
Cosplayers can spend about Php0 (nothing!) to Php12,000 on props and costumes! And this is not including the amount they spend on traveling and attending conventions.
The most used material in cosplay crafting is fabric! With about 84% of cosplayers doing so.
22% of cosplayers are thrifters and/or reuse their old clothes for their costumes!
Feature: 3D Printing in the Cosplay Scene
Some cosplayers have opted to use 3D printing techniques in their cosplay crafts, mainly pertaining to their props. They say that it provides quality output and would make it easier than to cut materials by yourself. But the question is:
“Is 3D printing sustainable?”
From what we have gathered, cosplayers using 3D prints for their cosplays have honestly admitted that 3D printing does produce inevitable waste most of the time.
What makes this worse is that you can’t really recycle such failed pieces, and the Philippines don’t necessarily have facilities to accommodate such.
What Exactly are Sustainable Practices in Terms of Cosplay?
One of the cosplayers we interviewed, Cosplayer Gelo Grayson, is a professional cosplay prop maker, and 3D is his main source of these crafts. He has shared that the plastic filament used for most 3D printing is PLA (Polyactic Acid), which sources from starch instead of crude oil. Although better than the latter, this type of filament is marketed to be biodegradable, but really, it is only partly true.
3D printing may be closely leaning to not being sustainable. But one thing to keep in mind is that just because you use such material doesn’t mean that you are immediately a threat to the environment. Cosplayer Gelo Grayson is an example of someone who, despite being a 3D printer, is still a firm advocate of sustainability and does his best to still incorporate sustainability in his crafts. (You can check out our feature video on him in our videos tab!)
The key to an overall sustainable cosplay is to minimize waste; this means that you should reuse and recycle as much as you can and do your best to opt against always buying new material. Remember, sustainable cosplaying is the actions you, as a cosplayer, do, not the materials you use.