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 ...
Bags are used by almost everyone and almost every day. As a result, your bag or purse is a product that you probably want to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wind energy is booming. But there are some problems too. The huge wind turbines are made up of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP), which presents a tough recycling challenge once they’ve served ...
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 ...