LEGO reveals the first brick prototype made from recycled plastic

    The LEGO Group presents a prototype LEGO® brick made with recycled plastic from PET bottles.

    PET Plastic Bottles: After three years of testing, the LEGO Group presents a prototype LEGO® brick made with recycled plastic, the last step of his journey to make products with sustainable materials.





    After having announced in recent months that it intends to manufacture all the bricks with bioplastics produced for example with sugar cane or wood by 2030, it is now launching the new prototype that uses PET plastic from discarded bottles.

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    A team of over 150 people is working to find sustainable solutions for LEGO products. Over the past three years, materials scientists and engineers have tested over 250 variants of PET materials and hundreds of other plastic formulations.

    The result is a prototype that meets many of their quality, safety and play requirements, the company note reads.

    We’re excited to announce that we’re using plastic bottles to develop prototype LEGO bricks! ? Good news for the planet, good news for bottles. ♻️ https://t.co/LO01pUdRGF#Sustainability #RebuildTheWorld #LEGO pic.twitter.com/Vak5Kqgv8f

    — LEGO (@LEGO_Group) June 26, 2021

    We are super excited about this breakthrough. The biggest challenge on our journey to sustainability is to rethink and innovate new materials that are as durable, strong and high-quality as our existing bricks and that fit LEGO elements made over the past 60 years. With this prototype we are able to show the progress we are making, says LEGO Group Vice President of Environmental Responsibility, Tim Brooks.

    It will take some time, however, for bricks made from recycled material to appear in LEGO product boxes. The team will continue to test and develop the PET formulation and then consider whether to move to the pilot production phase. This next phase of testing is expected to last at least a year.


    We know that children care about the environment and want us to make our products more sustainable. While it will take some time before they can play with bricks made from recycled plastic, we want to let the children know that we are working on them and take them with us on the trip. Experimentation and failure are an important part of learning and innovation. Just as kids build, take apart and rebuild with LEGO bricks at home, we're doing the same in our workshop, Brooks concludes.


    LEGO reveals the first brick prototype made from recycled plastic

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    The prototype is made with recycled PET sourced from suppliers in the United States that use processes approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to ensure quality. On average, a one-liter PET plastic bottle provides enough raw material for ten 2 x 4 LEGO bricks.

    Source: LEGO

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