Plastic Construction
June 18th 2009 14:31
Kind of a different post today, but that's alright. I was watching the PlanetGreen channel the other day on DirectTV (which I no longer have) and saw an interesting piece about recycling plastics. The program talked about the different numbers on plastics and how each number is a different type of plastic. Anyways, there is a guy who has found a way to combine to plastics that usually don't like to be together in a chemical compound. He has combined the type of plastic found in milk cartons, flexible and doesn't break, with the kind in department store hangers, rigid yet brittle. With it he has made a flexible, load bearing plastic composite that has been used to make plastic lumber. That's right, and it's been used in a test bridge and has been able to withstand truck and car traffic. It is predicted to last over ten times longer than wood, and is of course more available than trees!
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