Toy giant Lego has scrapped plans to make its bricks from recycled bottles, in a blow to its efforts to cut carbon emissions.
The move, which was first reported in the the Financial Times, will be seen as a setback after a high-profile push by Lego to improve its green credentials.
In 2021, it said it had developed prototype bricks made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, with some other chemicals added.
But Lego has now revealed that after more than two years of testing, it had found that using recycled PET didn’t reduce carbon emissions.
Niels Christiansen, chief executive of Lego, told the FT that there was no “magic material” to resolve the firm’s sustainability challenges.
A spokesperson for the company told the BBC: "We remain fully committed to making Lego bricks from sustainable materials by 2032.
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Toy giant Lego has scrapped plans to make its bricks from recycled bottles, in a blow to its efforts to cut carbon emissions.
The move, which was first reported in the the Financial Times, will be seen as a setback after a high-profile push by Lego to improve its green credentials.
In 2021, it said it had developed prototype bricks made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, with some other chemicals added.
But Lego has now revealed that after more than two years of testing, it had found that using recycled PET didn’t reduce carbon emissions.
Niels Christiansen, chief executive of Lego, told the FT that there was no “magic material” to resolve the firm’s sustainability challenges.
A spokesperson for the company told the BBC: "We remain fully committed to making Lego bricks from sustainable materials by 2032.
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