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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jem Bartholomew

Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles

A jumble of Lego bricks
Eighty percent of Lego bricks use acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), which needs 2kg of petroleum to make 1kg of plastic. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters

Lego has stopped a project to make bricks from recycled drinks bottles instead of oil-based plastic, saying it would have led to higher carbon emissions over the product’s lifetime.

The move, first reported by the Financial Times, followed efforts by the world’s largest toymaker to research more sustainable materials, as part of a wave of companies reassessing their contribution to global emissions as the climate crisis hits.

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