Plastic Parking Blocks are made of solid 100% recycled plastic, never need painting and won't chip, crack or deteriorate from weather or road salts The Plastic Parking Blocks are made of solid 100% ...

The problem of ocean waste, particularly the plastic variety, is a big one, and many creative people are working on ways to clean it up. Finding ways to repurpose the plastic debris collected from the ...

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., ...

ByFusion aims to make building more sustainable. The company created ByBlock, the first construction-grade brick made entirely out of recycled plastic materials. “We have been working hard over the ...

In a world of disposable everything, single-use plastics continue to reign supreme. Every year, Americans generate about 42 million tons of it. And yet only 9% of that gets recycled, in part because ...

Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming problem. By 2040, estimates indicate that as much as 710 million tons of solid plastic waste will clog up the earth's ecosystem, in ...

Colombian company Conceptos Plásticos saw two pressing issues in the world and decided to tackle both with recycled building materials. One issue is the housing crisis, prevalent in Latin America ...

In Bogota, 700 tons of plastic is discarded daily, with only 100 tons of that recycled. But that’s all beginning to change, thanks to the work of architect Oscar Mendez. His company, Conceptos ...

Every day, millions of tons of waste plastic are deposited in landfills, on the sides of our roadways and into the ocean, polluting our environment, adding to greenhouse gas emissions and killing ...