Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kenyan woman invented a brick stronger than concrete that’s made entirely of recycled materials like plastic. “Plastic waste is ...

Most bricks are made of cement and sand. These bricks are made of melted plastic bottles and bags. And they last longer than the regular ones. Nzambi Matee is a materials engineer from Nairobi, Kenya.

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 ...

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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 ...

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