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 ...

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However, there are ways to address this issue, such as the initiatives undertaken by Conceptos Plasticos, a company engaged in recycling plastic to create construction bricks. Global warming is ...

Recycling remains one of the most viable strategies for managing plastic waste, yet traditional methods face several ...

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 ...