Georgia-based producer of wire and cable products also is using reclaimed plastic in its cable spools. Southwire says it has as one of its goals to use 100 percent recycled materials in its packaging ...

I am about to undertake a massive home networking project where I wire a house for a buddy that is still under construction (it's barely framed, and now is the PERFECT time to make all the runs).<P>I ...

Despite being a readily-available source of useful plastic, massive numbers of disposable bottles go to waste every day. To remedy this problem (or take advantage of this situation, depending on your ...

If you have too much slack on a length of cable or you need to pull and cut wire at your workbench, all you need to get that cable under control is a plastic bottle to coil the cable inside. Unlike ...

Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...

This post is brought to you by Avi, maker of Smart-Spools. “Cable organizers” is one of those useful product categories that no one can quite seem to get right. The engineering problem seems simple ...