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Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)

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Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"::Danish toy giant Lego said 2 years of experimentation with blocks made from recycled plastic bottles showed they "didn't reduce carbon emissions."

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plastic requires heavy sorting to be able to recycle then once that is done a large percentage is not usable, a small percentage can be used again but needs high energy to do so, low quality plastic is illegally imported to a Pacific island country and the waste is burned in fields. Plastic industries have been lobbying to keep this information as quiet as possible and blame the consumer for not "recycling enough" for decades https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dk3NOEgX7o

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