Trex composite decking is made from 95% recycled and reclaimed content, including thousands of plastic bags, wraps and films. (Photo courtesy Trex) This is your first of three free stories this month.

City officials are planning to replace the full length of Coney Island’s hardwood boardwalk with recycled plastic decking, the latest expansion of a sustainability initiative that has set off backlash ...

Trex Co. Inc. needs more shopping bags and plastic films to recycle into composite decking as demand for its products keeps climbing. The pandemic sent sales of building products for outdoor living ...

Recycling in the United States goes beyond placing plastic beverage bottles in a curbside collection bin. Post-consumer recycling is crucial in providing sorted waste streams for reclaim, but that’s ...

Injection molding is usually focused on high-volume production, but that doesn’t always need to be the case. The Recycled Plastic Skateboard Deck project centers on the use of injection molding for a ...

To help manufacturers ensure plastic packaging is recycled, Virginia-based Trex Co., which makes wood-alternative decking and railing from recycled plastic, is offering free recyclability testing to ...

The city of Merriam is one of the latest local beneficiaries of a program in which plastic bags are recycled as free park benches. To make it happen, the city collected about 1,000 pounds of plastic ...

Today I present to you a true story, and an amazing opportunity to participate in a meaningful and relatively easy program to earn a bench for your nonprofit. In November of 2023, a partnership ...