Making Lego from Recycled Materials Ultimately Has A Higher Carbon Footprint
Lego determined after 2 years of testing that making their plastic bricks from recycled bottles would, at scale, ultimately have a higher carbon footprint due to the level of disruption to the manufacturing environment (needing to change everything). The rPET also requires large amounts of energy for processing and drying as well as additional chemicals so it can rival the durability of normal Lego blocks. Now they are investigating alternative solutions focused on reducing incremental emissions and a takeback scheme.
