{"id":90953,"date":"2023-09-26T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/?p=90953"},"modified":"2023-10-01T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:26:19","slug":"lego-ditches-plans-to-make-bricks-from-recycled-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/lego-ditches-plans-to-make-bricks-from-recycled-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego ditches plans to make bricks from recycled PET"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranpolymer\/Baspar\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>In a PR blow to the plastic recycling industry, Lego has abandoned its plans to switch to recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) for its bricks, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
\nIn 2021, the world\u2019s largest toymaker announced it was\u00a0testing a prototype brick made with rPET, building on a 2015 pledge to invest on more sustainable replacements for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), which it uses in about 80% of its bricks.
\nLego is now backtracking because using rPET would have required significant changes to its manufacturing equipment and therefore would have led to higher carbon emissions over the product\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to scale production [of recycled PET], the level of disruption to the manufacturing environment was such that we needed to change everything in our factories,\u201d Tim Brooks, Lego\u2019s head of sustainability, told the Financial Times. \u201cAfter all that, the carbon footprint would have been higher. It was disappointing.\u201d
\nOne of the key concerns with rPET was that it was softer than ABS and therefore needed extra ingredients to give it similar durability and safety. Improving the qualities of rPET reportedly required \u2018large amounts of energy to process and dry it\u2019, according to the Financial Times report.
\nLego now plans to make ABS more sustainable by gradually incorporating more bio-based and recycled material. The company also wants to encourage consumers to reuse their Legos, with a return scheme in the plans for the next two to three years.
\nThe announcement comes amid\u00a0continuous increases in rPET resin prices\u00a0in the past months, which would have further impacted the economics of Lego\u2019s planned change, in addition to the reported concerns about carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

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Iranpolymer\/Baspar\u00a0 In a PR blow to the plastic recycling industry, Lego has abandoned its plans to switch to recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) for its bricks, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. In 2021, the world\u2019s largest toymaker announced it was\u00a0testing a prototype brick made with rPET, building on a 2015 pledge to invest on more …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":90954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31004,69],"tags":[1580,50156,47329,50155,49234,47674],"class_list":["post-90953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news-en","tag-abs","tag-bio-based-and-recycled-material","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-lego-2","tag-recycled-polyethylene-terephthalate","tag-rpet-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}