What if we turned the world’s growing wastelands of disused plastics into a new kind of sustainable building? The disposal of plastics is a highly visible global problem – from the highest mountains to the deepest ocean trenches, waste plastic seems inescapable. In natural conditions, plastics are nearly indestructible, and yet they are discarded worldwide on a large scale: the [...]
During the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ (ISRI) 2019 Convention & Exposition April 8-11 in Los Angeles, the Spotlight on Plastics highlighted some unique products that are starting to demand recycled plastics. Madeline Rohrbacher, territory sales manager Mid-Atlantic at North Carolina-based CaraGreen, said a number of building materials are starting to utilize recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET). “These are alternatives to conventional building materials, [...]