It is often said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure," and for Harriete Estel Berman, she sees beauty in the discarded. As a metalsmith and artist, she transforms recycled materials into ...
A new method to recycle wind turbine blades without using harsh chemicals resulted in the recovery of high-strength glass fibers and resins that allowed researchers to re-purpose the materials to ...
Plastic waste is difficult and expensive to manage in Hawaii, especially when it includes debris collected from the ocean. Researchers are now testing whether discardedfishing nets and household ...
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 ...
New flexible packaging films have a unique combination of performance, durability and easy scalability to help strengthen the broader recycling ecosystem, paving the way for stronger, cleaner ...
A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...
Researchers at the university in New York have combined four detection methods in an attempt to measure recycled content in a plastic sample or package. “By fabricating such a device, we hope to ...
Left: wind turbine blade waste; Middle: treated and dried wind turbine blade glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP); Right: injection-molded plastic containing 70% recycled GFRP (photo by WSU). PULLMAN ...