Plastic is an extremely durable material, but unfortunately, it is not favorable for our planet. Its presence worsens the ...

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 ...

Lego makes about 3,500 different bricks and shapes ... Green Alliance said the recycled plastic plan is "certainly preferable to using virgin plastic" but she "hopes the supply of single use ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toy giant Lego has scrapped plans to make its bricks from recycled bottles ... using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a virgin plastic made from crude oil. The move, which was first reported ...

Lego has turned plastic bottles into its iconic bricks in a push to use more sustainable materials. The Danish toy maker unveiled its first prototype brick to be made from recycled plastic on ...

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 pine wooden boards were chosen because they weigh about the same as the plastic that makes up around 70 per cent of marine waste in the region. The bricks will float around until they wash up ...