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 ...

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. John Stehle came up with the idea of making beds using ...

She built a lab in her mother’s backyard and begin experimenting with plastics and sand, melding them together to make ... the sand-plastic paste and stamp it into sturdy paving bricks.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the beds are made from 100 percent recycled plastic. John Stehle came up with the idea of making beds using interlocking plastic bricks by melting down pellets that used to be buckets, crates and ...