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Edison, N.J., Firm Creates Railroad Ties from Recycled Containers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2001
By Lewis Krauskopf, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 12--Commuters on NJ Transit's Morristown train line are traveling over new terrain these days: old milk jugs.
From Hoboken to Harrison, 36 railroad ties made from recycled consumer plastic are in place as NJ Transit tests the new substance, manufactured by Edison-based Polywood Inc., as a potential widespread replacement for traditional wooden ties.
Using a patented method developed by Rutgers University professors, Polywood specializes in a recycled plastic suitable for industrial use that distinguishes the company from the dozens of other plastic lumber makers. Aside from the New Jersey rails, 30,000 Polywood rail ties -- which hold the track...
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