Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks.

Lego has ditched plans to use recycled plastic bottles to make its beloved building blocks after its efforts toward sustainability did not reduce the company’s overall CO2 emissions. Two years ...

Through Lego’s manufacturing process, a single one-liter bottle could produce ten 2×4 Lego bricks. The company tested around 250 variations of PET materials before settling on the final brick ...

Lego, which produces billions of bricks every year, tested over 600 materials to try and create a new medium that would ultimately replace its oil-based brick by 2032, reported Reuters,.

Danish toy giant Lego said 2 years of experimentation with blocks made from recycled plastic bottles showed they "didn't reduce carbon emissions." Latest U.S.

The company will do so by decreasing the percentage of oil in its bricks while adding more certified renewable or recycled materials. Of course, the bricks that make up Hagrid’s Hut, the Wicked ...

And of the 48 million tons of plastic generated in the U.S., only 5% to 6% gets recycled. Plastic is notoriously difficult to recyle because it comes in different varieties that can't be mixed ...

Lego, which sells billions of plastic bricks annually, has tested over 600 different materials to develop a new material that would completely replace its oil-based brick by 2030, but with limited ...

Lego is moving toward its goal of producing completely oil-free bricks by 2032 after securing agreements with suppliers of renewable plastics, the company said Wednesday.

Despite scrapping plans to make Lego bricks from recycled plastic bottles, Lego say they're still on track to make their bricks out of sustainable materials by 2032. BBC Homepage.

Lego is ditching fossil fuels for a more planet-friendly material. This week, the toy maker announced it was eliminating the use of oil in its bricks and replacing it with renewable materials and ...