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> the material didn’t reduce carbon emissions Good on them for checking that, but aren't there additional concerns with plastics, e.g. reducing the amount of m
by vlz 3y ago
> the material didn’t reduce carbon emissions
Good on them for checking that, but aren't there additional concerns with plastics, e.g. reducing the amount of microplastics in the environment?
- yodon 3y agoLego isn't micro. That's why it hurts to step on it with bare feet.
- Smoosh 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop
- LoganDark 3y agolegos are worse
- deepsummer 3y agoSome pieces are, and many are close. Microplastic is defined as pieces < 5mm.
- sp332 3y agoYou really have to put some wear on a piece of plastic to get microplastic particles. Washing polyester clothes and driving cars on "rubber" tires for example.
- defrost 3y agoOr sun exposure - many large chunky plastic items become brittle and fragment after years in the sun. Then there's shadecloth - literally tens of hundreds of thousands of kilometres of shadecloth woven from plastic fibres that all eventually goes rotten and is replaced. Tearing old shadecloth down sends tonnes of microplastic into the environment after what frayed and blew away while it was up. https://www.sagehort.com.au/horticultural-materials/shadecloth/page/2 https://www.sagehort.com.au/horticultural-materials/shadeclo...
- sp332 3y agoOh yeah, I left a tarp over a project one summer and was shocked at how much of it flaked off into the yard. At least it was down-slope from the well pump.
- vlz 3y ago> "rubber" tires Incidentally Lego has a claim to being one of the largest tire manufactures. Apparently they are making more tires than anybody else but of course the tires are tiny. https://jalopnik.com/lego-is-actually-the-world-s-biggest-tire-manufacturer-1849396247 https://jalopnik.com/lego-is-actually-the-world-s-biggest-ti...