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Why Lego bricks are struggling to go greener

25 September 2023

Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) comments on Lego's decision to scrap plans to make its bricks from recycled plastic bottles, after discovering their manufacture involves higher carbon emissions than those made from crude oil.

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