The typically hard-to-recycle items, like cereal box liners and salad bags, are turned into plastic lumber, pellets or ...

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

Wood moves constantly. Remember these tips for how to dry lumber so you don't have to deal with twisted, cracked wood.

In the domestic waste industry, recyclable plastic waste is categorized under either synthetic polymer or synthetic resin waste depending on the material and can be sold to facilities specialized ...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of ...

Alliance to End Plastic Waste and ASASE Foundation have commissioned a cutting-edge plastic lumber factory with an impressive capacity of 2,000 tonnes. This marks a significant step towards ...

The state of Washington is fining 35 companies a total of $416,000 for not using enough recycled plastic in their packaging, the first time it's issued penalties under a 2021 law. Washington's ...

Alliance to End Plastic Waste and ASASE Foundation have commissioned a cutting-edge plastic lumber factory with an impressive capacity of 2,000 tonnes. This marks a significant step towards ...

A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme the bacterium use to degrade plastic. The discovery opens new possibilities ...

Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, 84 Lumber Company is the nation’s largest privately held supplier of building materials, manufactured components and industry ...

Steve Jasiecki describes passing a construction site in which crews cut a section of plastic lumber to size, leaving snowy, white sawdust in the dirt. That sawdust may drift in a breeze or sink ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...