Projects like these are sorely needed. This company turned plastic waste into something stronger than concrete — here's how ...

Workers lay asphalt with New Village Initiative's plastic beads on an Interstate 80 bypass lane near DeSoto, Iowa, west of Des Moines. The company transforms waste plastics into tiny beads used to ...

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

Engineers at MIT have recycled "dirty plastic into building products for homes that are lighter, more durable, and sustainable." ...

Attempts in the past have tried adding plastic scrap to traditional building products, but shredding the material and dumping it into concrete or asphalt does not work in most applications because ...

Asphalt pavement formulated with recycled plastic has successfully survived heavy truck traffic and the atmospheric rivers of the winter of 2022-23 after a section of Highway 99 in California flooded ...

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

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Republic Services Recycling Center on Cole Road, waste whirs on a conveyor belt past workers who scramble to pull ...