Researchers have finally made a breakthrough in how to break down plastic effectively without needing harsh chemicals.

The plastic building blocks slot together easily, enabling the construction of an entire house in five days. “It is like lego. You can play and change the construction,” says Mendez.

In the past, many people have associated Minecraft with LEGO. The latter is one of the most popular plastic building block games many youngsters enjoy. As Minecraft is also a block-related game ...

Mattel Inc., already one of the largest toy makers in the world, wants a piece of the plastic building block business now dominated by Lego A/S. The El Segundo, Calif.-based company famously ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. In experiments, method recovered 94% of monomers ...

Leveraging the trace amounts of moisture in air, the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could ...

It is also effective with very long polymer chains made up of 10,000 monomer building blocks. Additionally, the presence of additives such as copolymers, plasticisers, dyes and most other plastics ...

The plastic toys are incredibly durable ... more Everyone loves LEGO building blocks — unless you accidentally step on one in the middle of the night, of course — but they are a total ...

The plastic transformed into terephthalic acid (TPA), a highly valuable building block for polyesters. Because TPA can be ...