LEGO Unveils Building Bricks Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

Renowned toy manufacturing giant LEGO recently unveiled its first building brick made from recycled plastic bottles. The visitor aims to use sustainable resources for manufacturing its popular building sets in the future. Then, the evolution of the new bricks made from recycled plastic is a pregnant step to enable the company to reach its sustainability goals.

The Danish toymaker announced the environment-friendly bricks via an official press release. The initial product is a prototype of a LEGO brick that uses PET plastic from discarded bottles, complying with the company's strict quality and safety standards. As per the visitor, engineers and material scientists tested over 250 variations of PET materials and hundreds of other plastic formulations to develop the new epitome brick.

The company states that over 150 people are working to develop sustainable solutions for LEGO products. The new sustainable bricks were adult using recycled PET sourced from United states of america suppliers that use US Nutrient and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Food Prophylactic Authority (EFSA) canonical processes.

At present, coming to the design, these LEGO bricks are not that different from a standard Lego building brick. As per the company, a 1-liter plastic PET bottle is enough to make at least x ii x 4 LEGO bricks. The visitor has used its patent-pending formulation process that uses a "bespoke compounding engineering to combine the recycled PET with strengthening additives." This makes the new bricks as strong every bit the standard LEGO bricks. Then, these volition hurt the same if you lot stepped on them!

Coming to the availability of the new sustainable LEGO bricks, the company states that "information technology will be some time before bricks made from a recycled textile appear in LEGO product boxes". The company will continue to exam and develop the PET formulation. Following this, it volition decide whether to movement the development to the pilot production phase. These testings and developments, every bit per the toymakers, will take at to the lowest degree another yr.