3D printing is transforming single-use trash into permanent infrastructure. Engineers at MIT are successfully ...

The plastic bottle you just tossed in the recycling bin could provide structural support for your future house. MIT engineers ...

A new localized effort in Alaska recycles post-consumer plastic, marine debris and industrial plastic waste into lumber that could be used for infrastructure or industrial work. Anchorage, ...

Plastic Lumber Market is forecast to reach $8.24 Billion by 2025, after growing at a CAGR of 6.90% during 2020-2025. One of the main factors driving the global market plastic lumber market over the ...

City officials are planning to replace the full length of Coney Island’s hardwood boardwalk with recycled plastic decking, the latest expansion of a sustainability initiative that has set off backlash ...

MIT aims to make house construction more sustainable by using discarded plastics to print structural components.

A recycling company founded by a former Alaska fisherman has begun accepting plastic waste that wasn’t previously accepted for recycling in Anchorage. Patrick Simpson, owner of Alaska Plastic Recovery ...

BestPlus Plastic Lumber was used to deck out a backyard oasis for a family in a project for Make-A-Wish New Hampshire. The subsidiary and its parent company, Somerville, Mass.-based Triumvirate ...

The innovation consists in introducing reinforcing pultruded rods in the plastic matrix during the extrusion process, without any substantial modification of the existing production plant used for ...

The Ocean Legacy Foundation has made a breakthrough in cleaning up plastic from the ocean — by recycling it into usable plastic pellets, Inhabitat reports. Currently, the ocean holds about 170 ...