Stronger than concrete, Circular11's recycled plastic bricks were revolutionary. Though the bricks are no longer in production (more on that later), they set a daring precedent that established a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a country where overflowing waste has turned city streets into makeshift landfills, a new wave of startups is stepping up ...

BHUBANESWAR: In absence of any major facilities to process plastic, and construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the city, ...

Irradiation can also complement and enhance traditional recycling methods. When combined with a chemical recycling method known as pyrolysis, resulting in radiolysis, plastic waste polymers can be ...

“Instead of tossing them, we could recycle the experience to some kids ... They put out a call for any and all used plastic bricks, naming their project Brickago. “I didn’t really expect ...

Research at De Montfort University is showing how recycled waste plastic can be used to produce prosthetic limbs and create plastic bricks for use in housebuilding. Professor Farukh Farukh is a ...

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”.