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Lego looks toward sustainable materials despite failed recycle attempt

Denmark's Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world's largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego said it has decided not to progress" with making its trademark colourful bricks from recycled plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate, known as PET, and after more than two years of testing "found the material didn't reduce carbon emissions. Still, the toymaker remains "fully committed to making Lego bricks from sustainable materials by 2032, it added Two years ago, the privately-held group which makes its bricks out of oil-based plastic, started researching a potential transition to recycled plastic bottles made of PET plastic, which doesn't degrade in quality when recycled. It had invested more than USD 1.2 billion in sustainability initiatives as part of efforts to transition to more sustainable materials and reduce our carbon emissions by 37 pe

Lego looks toward sustainable materials despite failed recycle attempt
Updated On : 25 Sep 2023 | 4:45 PM IST

Lego Worlds lets gamers do what they've always wanted to - build

Lego Worlds is a sandbox game that lets you build using Lego bricks

Lego Worlds lets gamers do what they've always wanted to - build
Updated On : 31 Mar 2017 | 11:40 PM IST