house built in five days sounds like one of those construction promises that belongs in a sales brochure. Yet the recycled plastic brick system developed by Colombia’s Conceptos Plásticos has already ...

Colombia has a construction story that sounds almost too simple. Take discarded plastic, melt it into interlocking blocks, and assemble a small home in days instead of months. That is the model ...

If you ever played with interlocking brick toys as a kid, or even as an adult, you're instantly qualified to build a house with Plaex blocks, according to the team behind a strong, recycled ...

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 — ...