Although the holidays might seem some ways away, Toy Fair 2025 gave us an early taste of the hottest toys and games we expect to see on every child’s wishlist. The biggest brands of the toy ...

NEW DEHLI, March 12 — The whirr of machines and smell of carved wood hangs in the air of the Indian toy workshop, a centuries-old art form still in the game despite cheaper plastic alternatives. India ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. In experiments, method recovered 94% of monomers ...

Microplastics are now a ubiquitous part of our daily physical reality. These minuscule fragments of degrading plastic now suffuse our air, our soil, the food we eat and the water we drink.

Some babies play exclusively with wooden toys. Others engage with a mix of plastic and wooden. Some parents may not think much about the materials used, while others meticulously curate a play area of ...

NASA's Artemis 2 crew is seeking an original idea for their zero-g indicator (ZGI), a stuffed toy or doll that will be suspended from a tether in their Orion spacecraft to signal when they enter ...

Rhode Island leaders made their big pitch months ago in a meeting with Hasbro’s CEO and executives in hopes of persuading them to keep the iconic Pawtucket-based toy company in the state.

The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by strings that passed through their necks Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Startego Junior is displayed in the Jumbo Group booth at the Toy Fair, in New York’s Javits Center, Monday ...

Plastic does not naturally biodegrade. The Environmental Protection Agency cites research indicating that once in the environment, plastics can take between 100 and 1,000 years to decompose.

Toy Fair 2025, the largest and most iconic toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere, kicked off its 119th event this past weekend in New York City. From March 1-4, tens of thousands of global play ...

Toy makers with US manufacturing facilities are ... miniature dragons that it then shipped to China to be stuffed into plastic eggs before being shipped back to the US as part of its Eggmazing ...