Lego Ditches Recycled Plastic Bottle Bricks

Lego has abandoned its project to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles, citing higher carbon emissions over the product's lifetime. The Danish toymaker had been researching a potential transition to recycled PET from ABS, the material used in about 80% of Lego blocks. However, the non-oil-based material required additional ingredients for durability and greater energy for processing and drying, resulting in a higher carbon footprint. Instead, Lego plans to make each part of ABS more sustainable by incorporating more bio-based and recycled material, while tripling spending on sustainability to $3bn a year by 2025.