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 ...

LEGO announced plans Wednesday to scale up its use of renewable plastics in the ... certified renewable or recycled materials, which means less oil would go into the bricks that are used to ...

Then she developed machinery to churn out the sand-plastic paste and stamp it into sturdy paving bricks. Her company ... Want to do more than just recycle your plastic, but don’t know how?

The aim of the project is to take waste plastic, in this case high-impact polystyrene, and reform it into a brick that could be used as a low-cost building material. The material is shredded ...

Shopping with OluKai, as it stands now, won't necessarily mean purchasing recycled ocean plastics, but it pays into the research of the colossal mess our oceans face, which is just as important ...

Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country’s huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk ... bags – is then moulded into dark, compact bricks used as outdoor pavers ...

Eight billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since 1950. Much of it lies unrecycled in dumps, in the ocean or on beaches ... irradiate post-consumer plastics to recycle them and to more easily ...

Catalytic recycling techniques, such as hydrogenolysis and hydrocracking, are emerging chemical processes that can break down plastic waste into simpler ... landfill and ocean pollution caused ...