Report warns plastics in construction harm health and climate. Minnesota tribe promote alternatives. McKnight Foundation eliminates vinyl in new LEED Gold HQ. Minnesota entities are at the forefront ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Jonathan Quinn became the U.S. Plastics Pact president and CEO in July 2024, replacing Emily Tipaldo, the organization’s first executive director. “I lead a diverse consortium of stakeholders united ...

The house of tomorrow will be made of soda bottles–that’s how we best know the substance called PET, or polyethylene terephthalate. But architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake see a much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Tokyo park where the railings, rocks and bamboo features are all plastic Christine Ro Though plastics are all around (and even ...

Building products company says it consumed nearly 170,000 tons of plastic scrap last year. Trex both consumed and helped collect polyethylene film scrap in 2022, saying it consumed some 170,000 tons ...