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 ...

ByFusion's machine, called the Blocker System, converts the discarded waste into building blocks without having to sort or pre-wash them, a major obstacle in the plastic recycling process. After ...

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth in the UK have discovered that recycled glass powder can effectively stabilize ...

Now, however, comes the main event: the humble 2 x 4 brick. Lego has moved on from bendy bioplastic to making a new prototype block that is fabricated from PET plastic from discarded bottles.

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 ...

Lego enthusiastically announced in 2021 that the prototype PET blocks had become the first recycled alternative to pass its "strict" quality, safety and play requirements, following ...

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.

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 ...