Author: Carl Blesch and Todd B. Bates via Rutgers.edu

  • Recycled Plastic Lumber Invented by Pioneering Rutgers Professor

    Imagine a material lighter than steel, longer-lasting than lumber and strong enough to support 120-ton locomotives.Now imagine that material is made from milk containers, coffee cups and other plastics that we recycle.It’s called structural plastic lumber, and the ingenious, nontoxic material was invented by Thomas Nosker, an assistant research professor in the Department of Materials Science and…