Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kenyan woman invented a brick stronger than concrete that’s made entirely of recycled materials like plastic. “Plastic waste is ...

In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to ...

Rather than throw out those plastic bags, how about use them to build a park bench or something else useful? Most recycling programs aren’t that good at keeping plastic out of the trash. In the U.S., ...

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 ...