Lego gives up the attempt to produce bricks without oil-based plastic. The reason is that the new material that was used led to higher greenhouse gas emissions. Lego wanted to make bricks from recycled polyethylene terephthalate, writes the Financial Times. Lego top Niels Christiansen tells the newspaper that, after hundreds of tests, the Danish company has given up on finding a material that will produce less emissions, NTB reports. Tim Brooks, who leads the sustainability work at Lego, says that the recycled material is softer than the oil-based, and that it therefore needs more ingredients to maintain the same standard, and that a lot of energy is required to process it. – It’s like trying to make a bicycle out of wood instead of steel, he says. Previously, the company has promised that the oil-based chips will be replaced with chips made from sustainable materials by 2030.
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