Penny, left, and River Atchison, both 4, play with plastic and wooden vehicles. Toys are typically made using three materials — wood, plastic and metal. Wood is the only one that’s renewable.

Here are some of the toys that will soon look and feel different as companies shift toward making products with less plastic. Uno Uno announced that it now has a 100% recyclable deck of cards. The ...

These toys, sold by Mattel Inc., are part of a push by the $104-billion global toy industry to make its overwhelmingly plastic products more sustainable amid a plastic pollution crisis.