The manufacturer combines old windshields from trucks, cars, and airplanes, as well as glass scrap from new windshields, and grinds it into a fine powder. Approximately 3,800 2-liter soda bottles were used to make the 960 square feet of maroon carpet. Your old Ford or Buick may be a part of our building. Well, it's like plywood, and it's used the same way - on the roof's structure, underneath the metal roofing material and on the exterior trim work.
Plywood comes from large, high quality, old-growth trees, a very limited and precious resource.
OSB, on the other hand, is made from small, fast growing trees which can be raised on tree farms, specifically for this application. Finger-jointed lumber, shorter wood pieces that otherwise would be waste, were also used on the exterior trim work. All of the walls were painted with recycled latex paint. The acoustic ceiling tiles contain recycled gypsum, and recycled glass fiber can be found in the fiberglass batt insulation. The unique manufacturing process does not require the careful sorting of plastics by resin type called for in most plastic recycling procedures, but instead uses a mixture of various plastics to create parking stops, park benches, and picnic tables.