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 ...

Nearly all your clothes will wind up burned or in a landfill — but scientists are coming up with new ways to recycle those fabrics into new clothes or useful products. A critical step, though, will be ...

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 ...