Wanting to investigate possible ways to repurpose this material, [Rehaan33] built a rig to create bricks out of waste plastic for a school project. The aim of the project is to take waste plastic ...

Lego makes about 4,400 different bricks. Currently, many of them are made using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a virgin plastic made from crude oil. The move, which was first reported in ...

Oscar Andres Mendez and his team at Conceptos Plásticos have created a way to take discarded plastic and rubber and create stackable bricks with them. These bricks snap together to create quick ...

However, there are ways to address this issue, such as the initiatives undertaken by Conceptos Plasticos, a company engaged in recycling plastic to create construction bricks. Global warming is ...

At present, the company makes many of its bricks using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a virgin plastic made from crude oil. Using PET will also allow the firm to make different shaped Lego ...

The sludge – made from all kinds of plastic, even single-use shopping bags – is then moulded into dark, compact bricks used as outdoor pavers to build walkways and garages. “They’re twice ...