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No, the ecologically friendly option is to send it to the recycling.
Assuming it's recycled instead of sent to a landfill.
Once you find out about how the business of recycling works that's often not such a certain assumption.
In Germany there is a company that specifically lets you send in oly pla and pet and the sells it. You even get a credit based on how sortet your used Filament is. https://recyclingfabrik.com/
3D printing waste is a clean waste. It doesn't have food leftovers on it, weird paint or anything else which will render it unrecyclable. Also PLA just goes into a composter.
Great argument. Bit of a problem though: you don't need to convince me or the fediverse. You need to convince plastic recyclers not to just take the strange plastic like thing that isn't labeled and isn't common and just send it to the landfill.
The journey of recycling doesn't end the moment that a potentially recyclable object ends up in your recycle bin. In order to be recycled, A bunch of things need to go right, and if they don't then your "recycling" just enters the local landfill, if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, your "recycling" will end up in a cargo container on its way to a landfill in some third world country somewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisis
Mate, there are specialist recyclers for 3D printing waste - https://3dprintingwaste.co.uk/
They don't dump into the landfill.
You're naive if you think that "recycling" hasn't been a complete smokescreen for decades, FFS.
Not all recycling is the same.