Entrepreneur Patrick Simpson, of Alaska Plastic Recovery, has worked for much of the year with local advocacy groups like Cook Inletkeeper, Regroup, and Sustainable Seward to collect plastic for transformation into lumber as part of a recycling program funded by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. Last Thursday, Simpson put samples of the finished project — a thick green chunk of synthetic lumber — in the hands of borough residents at a Kenai Peninsula College Showcase.
Entrepreneur Patrick Simpson, of Alaska Plastic Recovery, has worked for much of the year with local advocacy groups like Cook Inletkeeper, Regroup, and Sustainable Seward to collect plastic for transformation into lumber as part of a recycling program funded by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. On Thursday, Simpson put samples of the finished project — a thick green chunk of synthetic lumber — in the hands of borough residents at a Kenai Peninsula College Showcase.