Since 1989 The Plastic Lumber Company has been committed to providing the finest products from recycled plastics ... advantages over products made from wood, concrete and metal.

Miller and Moran, who help run the architectural practice T+E+A+M, saw both a material and an aesthetic opportunity in this recycled plastic building material. “We had this idea that waste ...

Many people are familiar with its biochemical cousin cellulose, a byproduct of paper and wood milling. But the same processes produce 50 million tons ... Boston College chemists have developed an ...

But sometimes, the difference between what you should and shouldn't recycle isn't obvious. When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a ...

Recycling can be confusing enough as it is. To help, here's what those little numbers in recycling symbols actually mean.

The European Union, Alliance to End Plastic Waste and ASASE Foundation have commissioned a cutting-edge plastic lumber factory ... deployment of a third recycling plant can be attributed to ...

Strength from combining materials ORNL and UMaine made the panels using polylatic acid (PLA), a bioplastic derived from corn residue, which they mixed with wood flour made from lumber processing ...

Don't through away those plastic bags! Reuse them, turn your old shopping bags into a cool new kite by following these instructions. Feed some string through a new straw (Leaving about 10cm either ...

An investigation into the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has led to calls for Sainsbury’s and Tesco to publicly support the Global ...

PLASTIC ACTUALLY GETS RECYCLED. REPORTER. EVERYTHING YOU SEE HERE SORTED INTO WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED AND WHAT CAN’T. ALL TYPES OF MATERIALS THAT CAN BE REUSED AND REPURPOSED. AT RECOLOGY IN SAN ...

Those gases can then be recycled into new plastics. “Because polypropylene and polyethylene are among the most difficult and expensive plastics to separate from each other in a mixed waste ...

Given the failures of recycling to solve the plastic crisis, it is imperative to phase out plastic production, particularly virgin plastic production, with the view of elimination. Conflicting ...