By Tony Connelly

Lego has invested $150m to build a sustainable materials centre to develop non-oil derived plastics as part of its plan to be free of ABS plastic by 2030.

The extraction and refinement of oil used in the process of making 60 billion Lego bricks each year is responsible for three-quarters of the company’s carbon footprint.

Lego’s new sustainable materials centre will be built in Billund, Denmark and is expected to be ready by the end of next year. It will have around 100 specialists working on developing materials and ways to manufacture the colourful bricks from recycled plastics, organic material or Read full story ›

Source: The Drum