The best base for ceramic tile is waterproof cement board. The post How to Install Cement Board for Tile Projects appeared ...

You may remember I did a national survey about failing asphalt shingles in the spring of 2015. I wrote a similar column back ...

Asphalt shingles are the most common roofing material ... installer is especially important to ensure proper installation. Concrete tiles are made from a sand-based concrete solution.

With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...

This discount is shown at checkout, if applicable. An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024 ...

India contributes to a fifth of global plastic pollution, a study published in the journal Nature last week found. India burns roughly 5.8 million tonnes (mt) of plastic each year, and releases ...

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics The catalytic process efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing closer a circular ...

Kubik is a company that converts recycled plastic waste into interlocking building materials, such as bricks, beams, and columns. Kubik’s products are at least 40% cheaper per square metre compared to ...

Concrete is ubiquitous in our modern world, forming the backbone of buildings, bridges, and infrastructure. Its history stretches back millennia, with techniques lost and rediscovered over time.

Three in five samples of cement products the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) collected in a market surveillance operation failed the standards test, a leaked report shows. The report indicates ...

A catalytic process developed at UC Berkeley efficiently converts the most common types of plastic waste—polyethylene and polypropylene—into their basic hydrocarbon monomers. This innovation, which ...

Ed Cook is active across the waste management and plastic pollution sector. He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank, OECD, UKRI, BBSRC, UNOPS, Royal Academy of Engineering, Pew ...