Lego is forgoing one of its oil-free recycled plastic block prototypes after testing showed the material didn't cut down on carbon emissions. However, the toymaker isn't ditching the effort to make ...

If you need new walls and have dreamed of a day where you could just build them out of LEGOs... well, your dreams have come ...

For years, the toymaker Lego has been trying to figure out how to make its plastic building blocks out of sustainable materials. It’s experimented with all kinds of things — Brazilian sugarcane, for ...

A recycling program that turns discarded plastic into construction-grade building blocks will become a sustained fixture in Tucson after City Council approved a 4-year contract Tuesday that makes ...

A firsthand look at an innovative program to improve learning, encourage environmental action and empower women in Côte d’Ivoire. UNICEF USA Chief Program Officer Darla Silva visits with students at ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Chemists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a “smart” polymer that could make industrial curing, 3D ...