Lego Drops Recycled Bottle Plan Due to Higher Emissions

Lego tried using recycled plastic bottles instead of oil-based plastic to make bricks, but found it would increase carbon emissions over the product's lifetime.
Lego makes billions of pieces per year, most from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic which requires 2kg of oil to make 1kg of plastic.
Recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic was softer and needed more processing, disrupting manufacturing.
Lego will continue efforts to make ABS more sustainable by using more recycled and bio-based materials.
Lego aims to triple spending on sustainability to $3 billion a year by 2025 without passing higher costs to consumers.

theguardian.com

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Lego drops plan to make oil-free bricks after failing to find sustainable alternative

Danish toymaker Lego has abandoned its plan to use sustainable materials for its bricks due to higher carbon emissions, after finding that its new material made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) did not meet the same quality standards as oil-based plastics.