Lego ditched plans to make oil-free bricks, saying the new material from recycled bottles would increase carbon emissions. The toymaker said it remains committed to making Legos from sustainable ...

Stanford researchers show the viability of recycled plastic in construction ... for around 10 standard two-by-four Lego bricks. These bags are made from 100% ocean plastic Fishermen in Java ...

A company in Australia wants to make a bed that could be a breeze to assemble. Better yet, the beds are made from 100 percent ...

A company in Australia wants to make a bed that could be a breeze to assemble. Better yet, the beds are made from 100 percent recycled plastic.

Wanting to investigate possible ways to repurpose this material, [Rehaan33] built a rig to create bricks out of waste plastic for a school project. The aim of the project is to take waste plastic ...

A company is turning plastic trash into cheap, easy-to-assemble building materials. It's helping build schools in Ivory Coast and increasing pay for waste collectors. More from World Wide Waste A ...

said LEGO should look for other materials to make its bricks, or ditch the material altogether given the negative health and environmental hazards associated with them. "Recycled plastic can be ...

I went to all these companies and I realized that they don’t really want to use recycled plastic. So I wanted to make my own tools so I could use recycled plastic locally.” Typical plastic ...

While recycled PET made up just a third of new packaging, this is still the most successful plastic in the recycling space. Other plastic types are even further behind. Overall, plastic packaging ...

The sludge – made from all kinds of plastic, even single-use shopping bags – is then moulded into dark, compact bricks used as ... of the world’s plastic is recycled, according to the ...