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, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 4, 2022) – While lumber was widely unavailable and prices were soaring to historic highs during the coronavirus pandemic, a University of South Florida mechanical engineering student ...

Recycled plastic wood products firm Plastecowood, whose carbon-negative products collectively remove some 40m unwanted plastic items annually from the UK’s waste stream, is set for significant ...

The picnic tables inside Plastic Lumber Co.'s warehouse look solid and durable, as if they were crafted by a master carpenter using thick lumber and a sharp saw. But they weren't built from redwood or ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp. is shedding its wood waste and recovered-plastic composite decking business to focus on its core business while reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. U.S.

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 ultra-strong recycled material, Recycled Plastic Lumber, is made of polymer-reinforced composites, a material that is reinforced like concrete. The material will be used as a replacement for wood ...