Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks.

Danish Toymaker Lego has abandoned its most high-profile effort to ditch oil-based plastics from its bricks after finding that its new material led to higher carbon emissions, the Financial Times ...

Lego abandons efforts to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles after finding it didn’t reduce CO2 emissions By . Shannon Thaler. Published Sep. 25, 2023, 10:43 a.m. ET.

Lego is moving toward its goal of producing completely oil-free bricks by 2032 after securing agreements with suppliers of renewable plastics, the company said Wednesday.

LEGO says it has tested over 600 different materials over the last eight years in an effort to make the bricks more sustainable – with varying levels of success.

Since modern Lego bricks debuted in 1958, their color scheme has undergone a transformation from just a handful to more than 110 at the peak in 2004. The palette has evolved, grown and shrunk over ...

Lego is ditching fossil fuels for a more planet-friendly material. This week, the toy maker announced it was eliminating the use of oil in its bricks and replacing it with renewable materials and ...