Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic
While the toy brand kills its plans for an oil-free plastic alternative, it’s still pumping out billions of non-biodegradable bricks a year. Can Lego ever be sustainable?
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While the toy brand kills its plans for an oil-free plastic alternative, it’s still pumping out billions of non-biodegradable bricks a year. Can Lego ever be sustainable?
Intended to improve sustainability, Lego's oil-free prototype would actually increase the company's carbon emissions.
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Toy-making firm Lego had originally planned to produce all of its bricks using recycled PET by the end of the decade
The Danish toy giant said the new material led to higher carbon emissions.