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Lego is a plastics company; they're trying to become net-zero, but, unfortunately, being a plastics company, this is extremely hard: https://www.ft.com/content

Lego is a plastics company; they're trying to become net-zero, but, unfortunately, being a plastics company, this is extremely hard: https://www.ft.com/content/6cad1883-f87a-471d-9688-c1a3c5a0b7dc https://www.ft.com/content/6cad1883-f87a-471d-9688-c1a3c5a0b...

elzbardico 3y ago
Why? As long as people don't burn the bricks....
- donkeyboy 3y ago
  Plastic is made from upstream oil and gas companies. Kind of hard to be net-zero in that sector
  - lupire 3y ago
    Why? It's effectively a recycling progrsm for waste.
- boplicity 3y ago
  The creation of plastic products causes significant emissions, which is something that I don't think is widely understood.
magnetowasright 3y ago
ft link: https://archive.is/20230924232054/https://www.ft.com/content/6cad1883-f87a-471d-9688-c1a3c5a0b7dc https://archive.is/20230924232054/https://www.ft.com/content...
magnetowasright 3y ago
> The world’s largest toymaker announced two years ago that it had tested a prototype brick made of recycled plastic bottles rather than oil-based ABS, currently used in about 80 per cent of the billions of pieces it makes each year. However, Niels Christiansen, chief executive of the family-owned Danish group, told the Financial Times that using recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) would have led to higher carbon emissions over the product’s lifetime as it would have required new equipment. I just thought that particular issue around new equipment was interesting.
GuB-42 3y ago
Lego may be the most "eco-friendly" plastics company in existence. Not because their factories and materials are special, but because they are among the most durable plastic items there are. Lego last essentially forever. 50 year old bricks are still in use today, I don't think I have ever seen people trashing Lego. They are actually quite valuable and very easy to sell. I think the only significant losses beside a few accidents are sets that end up, unused, in attics. But they are not really lost and may get a second life as they get rediscovered. This may be the ultimate sustainable toy. I mean, name another toy that is still usable and didn't get obsolete after nearly 100 years. The most surprising part to me is that they are still selling. Maybe that thanks to adults, I don't know how long it will last. As for their packaging, it is mostly cardboard, they use less plastic than almost everyone else. In fact, they are going towards no plastic packaging at all.
- mtreis86 3y ago
  > name another toy that is still usable and didn't get obsolete after nearly 100 years Lincoln Logs are just over 100 years old. An original set, if any exists, should still be usable.
- Libcat99 3y ago
  I also have a hard time imagining Lego didn't inspire Minecraft and similar games, at least a little. An even more sustainable resource.

elzbardico 3y ago

Why? As long as people don't burn the bricks....

donkeyboy 3y ago
Plastic is made from upstream oil and gas companies. Kind of hard to be net-zero in that sector
- lupire 3y ago
  Why? It's effectively a recycling progrsm for waste.
boplicity 3y ago
The creation of plastic products causes significant emissions, which is something that I don't think is widely understood.

magnetowasright 3y ago

ft link: https://archive.is/20230924232054/https://www.ft.com/content/6cad1883-f87a-471d-9688-c1a3c5a0b7dc https://archive.is/20230924232054/https://www.ft.com/content...

magnetowasright 3y ago

> The world’s largest toymaker announced two years ago that it had tested a prototype brick made of recycled plastic bottles rather than oil-based ABS, currently used in about 80 per cent of the billions of pieces it makes each year. However, Niels Christiansen, chief executive of the family-owned Danish group, told the Financial Times that using recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) would have led to higher carbon emissions over the product’s lifetime as it would have required new equipment. I just thought that particular issue around new equipment was interesting.

GuB-42 3y ago

Lego may be the most "eco-friendly" plastics company in existence. Not because their factories and materials are special, but because they are among the most durable plastic items there are. Lego last essentially forever. 50 year old bricks are still in use today, I don't think I have ever seen people trashing Lego. They are actually quite valuable and very easy to sell. I think the only significant losses beside a few accidents are sets that end up, unused, in attics. But they are not really lost and may get a second life as they get rediscovered. This may be the ultimate sustainable toy. I mean, name another toy that is still usable and didn't get obsolete after nearly 100 years. The most surprising part to me is that they are still selling. Maybe that thanks to adults, I don't know how long it will last. As for their packaging, it is mostly cardboard, they use less plastic than almost everyone else. In fact, they are going towards no plastic packaging at all.

mtreis86 3y ago
> name another toy that is still usable and didn't get obsolete after nearly 100 years Lincoln Logs are just over 100 years old. An original set, if any exists, should still be usable.
Libcat99 3y ago
I also have a hard time imagining Lego didn't inspire Minecraft and similar games, at least a little. An even more sustainable resource.