COASTWISE LUMBER & SUPPLY COMPANY, INC. AMONG die important lumber concerns that make a specialty of classes and grades of lumber and timber especially adapted for marine use. One of the best ...

Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers ...

The slab is called Post Rock, and it’s a prototype of a recycled plastic building material that can dramatically reduce the ...

The documentary is part of a BBC initiative called Plastics Watch, tracking the impact of plastic on the environment. The marine biologists ... swapped out for other materials - aluminium or ...

The miracle material has made modern ... the environmental impact of disposable plastics. Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of marine animals every year.

Common trade names include Cycolac® (GE Plastics), Lustran® (Bayer), and Novodur® (Bayer). Acetal Acetal is a polyacetal or polyoxymethylene (POM) that provides higher strength than polyethylene-type ...

The aim of the project is to take waste plastic, in this case high-impact polystyrene, and reform it into a brick that could be used as a low-cost building material. The material is shredded ...

Wood has historically been the material ... and plastic, also require little maintenance while simulating the look of natural wood and offering lots of color options. Ultimately, building or ...

Once the plastic is in the ocean, it decomposes very slowly, breaking into tiny pieces known as microplastics, which can enter the marine food chain and become incredibly damaging to sea life. The ...

In the case of the Hong Kong-based autonomous boat startup Clearbot, it was a trip to Bali, where its founders saw the extent of the plastic pollution crisis first hand. “We were on the beach ...

To whales that hunt with soundwaves in lightless ocean depths, a torn plastic party balloon and a delicious squid may appear remarkably similar, according to a study. Underwater acoustic testing with ...

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