[PhiloBedo]

All that recycled plastic makes great landscaping timber, and other composite building material. Though more expensive, the material outlasts wood. One of the better uses of recycled material.

[Karoo]

That’s interesting. Thx for posting.

[Damifino]

...the material outlasts wood. One of the better uses of recycled material.

Sadly, here in FL it doesn't. It really has a low tolerance to UV. My neighborhood replaced our docks with it a few years ago and it already needs to be replaced.

[Does so]

When I was in Germany awhile back, recycled plastics were heat-formed into large blocks of gray plastic, and installed alongside the Autobahns to reduce traffic noise in neighboring towns. Rubber tires were shredded to make rectangular blocks used as a backstop at a rifle range. You never see tire fragments alongside Autobahns.

Here in New Hampshire, I watched a recycle station employee remove "my" recycled black dinner dish. I asked why, "Why? It's a "7", and you take "7s".

His answer was, "It's black, and turns off the transport belt at the (downstream) recycle station.

>>Shrug<<