The MIT HAUS team is pioneering 3D-printed floor trusses from recycled plastic, aiming to revolutionize sustainable construction with lightweight materials.

The plastic bottle you just tossed in the recycling bin could provide structural support for your future house. MIT engineers are using recycled plastic to 3D print construction-grade beams, trusses, ...

For years, the toymaker Lego has been trying to figure out how to make its plastic building blocks out of sustainable materials. It’s experimented with all kinds of things — Brazilian sugarcane, for ...

3D printing is transforming single-use trash into permanent infrastructure. Engineers at MIT are successfully ...

Read about the winning recycled plastic design in the Pleiades - Plastic European Innovation Award for Design and ...

Engineers at MIT have developed a process for 3D printing construction-grade structural elements using recycled plastic ...

The disclosure provides a clearer view of how future regulation is likely to affect packaging design, recycled content ...

A new federal government report finds major potential to use recycled plastic in infrastructure items like pipe but also highlights significant economic and environmental challenges to growth in other ...

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic ...

The dual needs to reduce the consumption of new resources in creating plastic products and to reduce the eventual creation of plastic waste when products have been used drive the pursuit of recycled ...