Lego is forgoing one of its oil-free recycled plastic block prototypes after testing showed the material didn't cut down on carbon emissions. However, the toymaker isn't ditching the effort to make ...

London (CNN) — 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 ...

For years, the toymaker Lego has been trying to figure out how to make its plastic building blocks out of sustainable materials. It’s experimented with all kinds of things — Brazilian sugarcane, for ...

Each year, more than 380 million metric tons of plastic is produced worldwide. Lego is responsible for 100,000 metric tons of it. This contribution to the annual total is, of course, the result of ...

Lately, every time I open up TikTok and scroll through my For You Page, I've been seeing videos of people cutting up plastic and stuffing it into water bottles to make something called an eco brick.

Lego is halting a recycled plastic program because the initiative would lead to higher carbon emissions. Finding sustainable alternatives to the company’s petroleum-based bricks has been marked by ...