Jerry Miller shows off ground plastic, ready to be melted into lumber. (Riley Board/KDLL) On the Central Kenai Peninsula, plastic is getting a second life as lumber, thanks to a local collections ...

Demand for wood-plastic composite and plastic lumber in the United States is forecast to expand 11 percent per year through 2009 to $3.5 billion, according to a study by Cleveland-based market ...

Gina Gregory expected to see boarded up windows, tall grass and a property that “looks awful” when she arrived at 1400 Roderick Road on Monday. Instead, she saw a home that doesn’t present a negative ...

CLEVELAND — Demand for wood-plastic composite and plastic lumber is projected to advance 10% per year through 2011 to $5.5 billion, according to The Fredonia Group Inc.’s new study, Composite & ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha recycling and manufacturing plant is turning hard-to-recycle items into something we can all use. Firststar Fiber’s facility will be turning plastic waste into a ...

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, ...

FRESNO, (KFSN) -- The mayor's task force on blight identified boarded up homes as one of the city's biggest problems. The goal is to get them fixed up, but until then, the proposed solution is to ...

Tangent Technologies LLC, a manufacturer of high density polyethylene lumber, has acquired extruder Bedford Technology LLC. The sale was completed at the end of February and announced March 23 by ...

Construction, in particular concrete, is a major contributor to Co2 emissions. Cutting down trees to use as lumber doesn’t help either. So a California company has come up with a clever way to reuse ...

The cost of lumber and other building materials is sky-high, and it's even more expensive when shipped to small coastal communities in Alaska. Patrick Simpson of Anchorage has an idea that might help.