Hard-to-recycle plastics First Star Recycling collects in orange Hefty ReNew bags are turned into plastic lumber at its PRF. It is still early in the process, but First Star Recycling could be onto ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 4, 2022) – While lumber was widely unavailable and prices were soaring to historic highs during the coronavirus pandemic, a University of South Florida mechanical engineering student ...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, headquartered in Singapore, and Firstar Fiber Corp., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, have announced a three-year collaboration to develop an integrated recycling ...

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 ...

These patio chairs, table and decking are made of lumber derived from hard-to-recycle plastics, such as toothpaste tubes and candy wrappers. Recycling materials fall to a conveyer belt at Firstar ...