When you think about building a house, what materials come to mind? Brick, wood and metal all come to mind; there are also ...

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic ...

MIT engineers turn plastic waste into strong building parts that could solve housing crisis and reduce environmental impact ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an ...

MIT’s 3D-printed recycled plastic trusses could reduce deforestation and offer a scalable solution for global housing needs.

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...

California milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol, the one with the chasing arrows, potentially threatening the existence of the ubiquitous beverage containers. Car manufacturers in ...

Bill Buttlar, a professor at the University of Missouri, highlights takeaways in the university’s research on using recycled low-density polyethylene in asphalt paving materials. In August 2021, the ...

Live deployment of recycled plastic benches and infrastructure products highlights circular manufacturing at Plast ...

The decision aims to help UK recyclers continue exporting recycled plastics for food contact while maintaining strict safety standards.

Plastic is fed into a shredder before being ground down into smaller pieces and melted, on Feb. 22 at Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls in Iowa Falls. The company uses recycled plastic material — ...

Preview this article 1 min A Buffalo manufacturer added a fourth silo to its Elmwood Avenue campus to store recycled raw material. How local manufacturers are coping with a plastics shortage © 2026 ...