We’ve been working on these pendants for months, perfecting the designs and creating prototypes. Recycling plastic into pendants showcases beauty from waste, turning once-discarded material into ...

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 ...

Easy and creative projects using recycled plastic for beginners.

In conversation with PN sister publication Sustainable Plastics, industrial designer Karim Rashid said using recycled plastics in design is becoming mainstream, but that there is still a market gap ...

The vast majority of floor trusses in homes are made with wood, at least in part due to its strength, light weight, cost efficiency and ease of installation. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute ...

London (CNN) — Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based ...

The future of housing may lie in the plastic waste we throw away. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers are transforming recycled plastic into 3D-printed structural elements, creating ...