#composites, #sustainability, #rawmaterials, #greenmaterials, #naturalfibers, #naturalresins I’m going back to what I wrote about a couple of weeks ago – the recommendations for the composites industry that I have in my upcoming book.  I promised that I would deal with each part of the industry in turn until I got all the way to the recyclers, talking about where we are today and what I see as a path to sustainability that each piece of the industry can take. From https://act

#composites, #sustainability, #naturalfibers, #autoindustry, #circularity This week I thought I would highlight one of the things I touched on in my second book and also expand a bit on a theme I brought up a few months ago.  The idea is that there is a growing trend in the auto industry to make their products more environmentally friendly as well as easier to recycle when the auto is used up.  This theme is a recurring one in many industries, but since the auto industry uses

#composites, #sustainability, #agwaste, #forestproductswaste, #woodwaste, #DARPA I know I promised to talk about my upcoming book in this and the next few posts, but I saw such an interesting article on LinkedIn on March 2 (last Monday) from DARPA of all places that I had to write about it.  I’ll weave the book back in a bit later in this post after I describe what I saw from DARPA. Fleetwood Project – DARPA Biological Technologies Office March 2, 2026 The article is about an

#composites, #sustainability, #circulareconomy, #roadmap, #bookwriting I got the proofs for my book last week, and over the weekend I put together the index and got it back to my publisher.  That is the last task I have to do before it goes to print.  I did look over the proofs, found a couple of typos (best to find those now) and suggested moving some figures around so that they line up with the text better, so now it is up to my publisher.  The book is 200 pages long, so it