Wait! Before you toss these items in the trash or recycling bin, check out all of the brilliant ways you can repurpose them ...

BHUBANESWAR: In absence of any major facilities to process plastic, and construction and ... and upcycling unit to manufacture bricks, paver blocks and other non-load bearing construction products ...

Parents, step away from the toy aisle. Turns out your toddler doesn’t need a mountain of plushies, plastic cars and magnetic ... kids started stacking blocks, pushing buttons and even diving ...

The tiny plastic particles are gobbled up by immune cells, travel through the bloodstream and eventually become lodged in blood vessels in the brain. It’s not clear whether such obstructions ...

Tucson officials broke ground Wednesday on a new facility that will transform plastic waste into construction-grade building material. The city’s deal with ByFusion will result in a 10,000 ...

For instance, a child's water cup contained 1,380 parts per million (ppm) of lead, 247 ppm of arsenic, and 1,390 ppm of chromium—far exceeding the European Union's safety limits of 90 ppm for ...

Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be leaching ...

Six months after being sold to a new platform company, American Plastic Toys Inc. is closing a plant in Olive Branch, Miss. Scott Campbell, vice president of administration at Orchard Creek ...

It’s a new program to cut down on plastic waste and a way to recycle buckets and shovels for others to enjoy. Several local environmental nonprofits partnered to launch the beach toy recycling ...

Credit: National Museum Of Denmark, with editing Before it completely decomposes, a plastic toy can discolor and show signs of degradation ... As a result, there is a clear division between the area ...

UNICEF USA Chief Program Officer Darla Silva visits with students at Mama Faita Preschool inside a classroom constructed out of recycled plastic bricks. The school is in Yopougon, a suburb of ...

And now that it's finished, it's proving popular with local kids, who gather to look at the old toys. "Have you ever stepped on a Lego block ... discard them?' "Plastic has managed to snake ...