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 ...

The bricks are strong, lightweight ... Want to do more than just recycle your plastic, but don’t know how? You could start by turning plastic bottles into rope, and then use the rope to make ...

The next generation of designers has a solution. Lego just figured out how to build its specialized bricks out of recycled plastic A single one-liter bottle can be recycled into material for ...

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 ...

While most 3D-printed homes are currently being constructed using concrete or plastic ... made from 3D-printed recycled glass ...

Better yet, 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 ...

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 ...

The sludge – made from all kinds of plastic, even single-use shopping bags – is then moulded into dark, compact bricks used as ... impossible to separate and recycle sustainably”.