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We don’t often think of our clothing as plastic, but much of it is. Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers are commonplace in the blended fabrics we wear every day. As a result, textiles ...

“Our furniture is solid wood and made with a focus on quality. It’s not cheap. It’s meant to last.” Prices at The Amish Home start at $2,000 for a dining room table and four ...

Both plastic and glass are fairly easy on the environment to produce, but are often very tricky, costly, and intense to recycle. When you factor in all of the water used to decontaminate plastic ...

That black plastic spatula in your kitchen drawer? It may be time to toss it. Recently, there’s been lots of buzz about the dangers of cooking with black plastic utensils — think spoons ...

A Nov. 28 Threads post (direct link, archive link) makes sweeping claims about the health of Amish people compared to other Americans. “Amish people have a longer life expectancy than regular ...

In this week's Material Insights, senior reporter Frank Esposito explains recent price decreases in polypropylene and engineering resins. Polypropylene has seen its third consecutive monthly drop ...

The recycled plastic lumber that Rutgers Professor Thomas Nosker invented decades ago is now used all over the world in bridges, railway ties, docks and picnic tables. It’s less dense than water, yet ...

Rearranging hydrogen and carbon atoms to produce common plastics like PET (a type of plastic used to produce ... or chipped wood). Origin’s new chemical platform enables the production of ...

North American prices for polypropylene resin continued to slide in November, falling an average of 3.5 cents per pound. Regional prices for the engineering resins nylon, polycarbonate and ABS ...