Karthikeyan Kandan receives funding from The Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Academy of Engineering. In fact only 21% of all the plastic ever produced has been recycled or incinerated. So ...

Over the past few years, Lego has been taking some steps toward more sustainable practices for its plastic toys, outlining plans for more eco-friendly playthings. The company has just revealed the ...

Lego is finally on its way to making its iconic toy bricks more sustainable. The toymaker unveiled this week a prototype brick made entirely of recycled plastic — but it's not yet available in stores.

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Lego has ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland teen may have come up with a way to get more people off the streets and recycle “un-recyclable” plastic at the same time. Cleveland High School senior Charlie Abrams ...

For the latest report in our "Eye on Earth" series, CBS News correspondent Debora Patta went to Kenya to learn about a creative approach to addressing the scourge of plastic pollution. Nairobi — ...

Futurism is dead. At least, the wildly optimistic technology-based futurism of the middle years of the 20th century has been replaced in our version of their future by a much more pessimistic model of ...

Cristie North’s version of utopia is built from thousands of plastic bricks and takes up most of her basement. There’s a bustling main street and a beach with swimmers. There’s a moving roller coaster ...