The time of wooden cutting boards is long gone. They sure had a moment, but we are in the era of plastics now, and they seem to have taken over kitchens everywhere. This may be for good reason, too.

Shawn Mergler is a furniture design student in Buffalo, NY who sees creative possibility in plastic bottle caps and milk jugs. He wants plastic to be more than trash, but it’s hard to bend ...

Researchers are adding to their list of consumer products that contain PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a toxic class of fluorine compounds known as 'forever chemicals.' In a new study, ...

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 ...

Atkore Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: ATKR), a leading manufacturer of electrical products for commercial, industrial, data ...

This free HDPE technical resource provides machinists with the exact feeds, speeds, and tooling strategies needed to process the plastic flawlessly. The plastics industry has lacked a single, ...

Infra Pipes (the "Company"), a leading North American manufacturer of medium- and high-density polyethylene pipeline ...

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