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In this video, we explore recycled plastic bricks as a potential solution to plastic pollution and housing challenges.
Scientists from the University of Portsmouth in the UK have discovered that recycled glass powder can effectively stabilize ...
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 ...
The blocks are made without additives or fillers — 22 pounds of plastic create 22 pounds of ByBlock bricks. "We've modeled our ByBlocks around the dimensions of a hollow cement block.
Surf Block Maui has developed a system that converts foam from surfboard-shaping into building materials for local ...
Each year, more than 380 million metric tons of plastic is produced worldwide. Lego is responsible for 100,000 metric tons of it. This contribution to the annual total is, of course, the result of ...
The plastics group said chemical recycling, which it calls advanced recycling, takes harder-to-recycle plastics like flexible films and breaks them down into plastic building blocks to make new ...
A cement block has rebar running through it, but ByBlocks uses a method called post tensioning, which requires a steel rod. As a sustainable option for building material, the repurposed plastic ...