Tonnes of plastic waste, particularly discarded plastic bags threaten our planet with environmental pollution, and by now almost everybody knows it. Tonnes of plastic waste, particularly discarded ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plastic garbage collected by a women’s group is being recycled into bricks and used to build schools in West Africa. By Anemona Hartocollis Photographs by Yagazie Emezi Students play outside new ...