Is there a love more fleeting than a child’s affection for a fast-food meal toy? One minute, it’s the coolest thing in the world. An hour later back at home, it’s stuffed between two couch cushions, ...

While company’s like Melissa & Doug have built empires on wooden toy alternatives, other companies have been looking for ways to make plastic toys non-toxic. Kids Preferred, one of the world’s largest ...

When Jess Castaneda was a kid, she got her toys when her abuela took her to garage sales. It turned her into a lifetime thrift shopper. As an adult, she became a customer at the Green Bean, a kids ...

For many who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, those little toys from kids’ fast-food meals are a nostalgic part of childhood. But today, many parents — and even their children — are hoping restaurants ...

Dirk Vander Kooij’s furnishings are made from e-waste and 3D-printed recycled materials. His collection now includes a lens-like lamp made from recycled synthetics and polished metal, a table made ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Sand toys left behind on the beach can be swept into the ocean by rising tides. Once in the water, plastic toys break down until eventually becoming microplastics–or ...

McDonald's, the burger giant behind the Happy Meals that have been a kid's meal mainstay for decades, says it is changing up some key elements of its famed meals. According to a statement, the company ...

It was an extraordinary corporate pledge — a promise that not only fit the zeitgeist of an increasingly climate-anxious society, but also sought to reconcile pent-up guilt over mounting plastic waste.