You can saw it, you can sand it and, if you want to, you can carve your sweetheart's name into it. But beware: Mementos etched into this park bench won't last forever. That transient quality is one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trying to choose the right material for your fencing can be difficult. Wood has long been popular but needs regular maintenance.

Boosted by new environmental regulations and growing demand for lumber, a Cary manufacturer is on a roll, producing a woodlike plastic that company leaders say is more durable than the real thing.

The picnic tables inside Plastic Lumber Co.'s warehouse look solid and durable, as if they were crafted by a master carpenter using thick lumber and a sharp saw. But they weren't built from redwood or ...

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 ...

Development of a plastic substitute equal to the strength of conventional wood lumber has long been a holy grail for plastics researchers and manufacturers. A Rochester, Minn.-based startup says it ...

Newark, Oct. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Brainy Insights estimates that the global plastic lumber market will grow from USD 5.38 Billion in 2022 to USD 15.41 Billion by 2032. In comparison to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Tanzanian start-up that recycles plastic into environmentally-friendly plastic lumber and a Kenyan company that makes sanitary pads from bananas have won a major science and technology boot camp in ...

You can saw it, you can sand it and, if you want to, you can carve your sweetheart's name into it. But beware: Mementos etched into this park bench won't last forever. That transient quality is one of ...