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12 Advanced Building Products that Help Save Money on Energy Bills

Nearly 40 percent of our nation’s energy is consumed in our homes and buildings—and heating and cooling account for most of the energy use in a typical U.S. home. Unfortunately, much of the energy we use is wasted due to outdated building practices. Wasted energy not only hurts our...

Outdoor Decks Made with Recycled Plastic Bags? That’s Right!

If you’re thinking of adding a deck to your home’s outdoor space, you can do yourself and the environment a favor by checking out decking made with recycled plastics. This versatile decking lets you beautify your home and close the recycling loop. Recycled plastic decking has really grown in pop...

Living Walls…With Help from Plastics

If you have an interest in home gardening or landscape design, you’ve likely heard of “living walls”—indoor or outdoor vertical gardens filled with plants, flowers, and even edible herbs and vegetables. Grown in containers and fastened to the walls of buildings or other structures, these wal...

Plastics Help House Win at Solar Decathlon

Previously published in Plastics Engineering and posted with permission from the Society of Plastics Engineers. What does “a house that would intellectually respond to Hurricane Sandy” look like? As the students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, see it, it starts with two...

A Tiny House Provides a Big Lesson on Energy Savings

Previously published in Plastics Engineering and posted with permission from the Society of Plastics Engineers. Apparently tiny houses are quite the rage these days. Media outlets from the Today Show to Huffington Post have highlighted thousands of tiny houses. TV networks from FYI to HGTV have...

How Are Plastics Helping Curb Food Waste?

Previously published in Plastics Engineering and posted with permission from the Society of Plastics Engineers. In a previous article in this publication, Plastics Make it Possible honored the recipients of the 2015 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovations, highlighting the contributions of...

Great Ideas for Gifts Made with Recycled Plastics

Is recycling a big deal in your household? Are you and your loved ones passionate about the environment? Then check out these great gift ideas that can help lighten your environmental footprint. No matter the occasion, gifts made with recycled plastics help keep valuable materials out of landfills...

Inspired by Hurricane, College Team Builds Energy Efficient Shore House with Plastics

I typically like to start my articles with a little humor. But there’s nothing funny about Hurricane Sandy. The “superstorm” was devastating. Many communities and homeowners up and down the East coast are still recovering. But in its aftermath, an inspiring team of students from a college in...

Here Are 5 Simple Tips to Reduce Holiday Waste

Like it or not, most of us generate a lot of extra waste during the holidays. According to EPA, we Americans collectively generate an extra 1 million tons of waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Yikes! To reduce our environmental footprint, here are five simple tips to help keep food...

This Tiny House is Big on Energy Efficiency

This tiny house is making a big statement about the importance of energy efficiency for homeowners, our nation, and our environment … in tiny houses and not-so-tiny houses. While one advantage of a tiny house can be its relatively small environmental footprint, every house and homeowner can benefi...

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