The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on July 1, 2013. Few toys have caught the imagination of children everywhere more than LEGOs -- the multi-colored plastic blocks that ...

Do you know those small, many-colored plastic blocks that when stepped on, cause immense pain? Well, those curse-inducing blocks have built quite the empire: Lego is now officially the world's largest ...

Working for LEGO has obvious benefits. Being near colored plastic blocks all day, probably getting a discount in the company store, all the plastic interchangeable hairstyles you could ever want, the ...

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The problem of ocean waste, particularly the plastic variety, is a big one, and many creative people are working on ways to clean it up. Finding ways to repurpose the plastic debris collected from the ...

In a world of disposable everything, single-use plastics continue to reign supreme. Every year, Americans generate about 42 million tons of it. And yet only 9% of that gets recycled, in part because ...

For those of you who already know about Lego’s Speed Champions cars and play sets, yes, we are really late discovering these awesome little build-ables. For those who don’t know or could care less, ...