Portland-based Ultra-Poly is changing that. Ultra-Poly, already a big plastics recycler, has come up with a way to use material from dinged-up old bumpers to make new car parts.

Ultra-Poly collaborated with automotive supplier Autoneum North America Inc., Novi, Michigan, to develop a product that uses the recycled bumper material as a rigid backing substrate for a fibrous ...

Portland, Pa.-based Ultra-Poly Corp. and the Plastics Industry Association have developed a process to collect and recycle plastic automotive bumper covers in a way that is "economically feasible ...