BILLUND: Toy company Lego has axed its plans to produce its bricks from recycled bottles, a major blow to the company’s attempts to reduce carbon emissions, Western media reported on Tuesday.
The company in 2021 announced that it would make bricks not containing crude oil within two years. However, it said that according to experts using the new material didn’t reduce carbon emissions.
Lego committed to produce bricks from sustainable materials
Despite the development, Lego expressed its commitment to produce bricks from sustainable materials.
Lego makes about 4,400 bricks of different kinds and many of them are made by acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a plastic made from crude oil.
The Lego’s decision will be taken as a setback in its efforts to improve its green credentials.
Lego Like many other companies, has been exploring different materials to make bricks instead of just relying on plastic. The only problem the Lego is going through is finding a material that is durable enough to last for generations.
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In 2021, Lego announced it had developed prototype bricks made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, with some other chemicals added raising hope that it would offer an alternative to oil-based bricks.
But Lego has now said that after more than two years of research and testing, it had found that using recycled PET didn’t decrease carbon emissions.
Niels Christiansen, chief executive of Lego, told the media that there was no other material available to solve the firm’s sustainability challenges.
