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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

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 ...