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 ...

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 ...

Realising this, students of a government school in Thiruvananthapuram reduced the eco-hazard by converting nearly 1,300 kg of plastic waste into eco-bricks for use in construction. An eco-brick is ...

Lego makes about 4,400 different bricks. Currently, many of them are made using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a virgin plastic made from crude oil. The move, which was first reported in ...