Lego is moving toward its goal of producing completely oil-free bricks by 2032 after securing agreements with suppliers of renewable plastics, the company said Wednesday.

Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks.

Lego’s foray into sustainable bricks did not begin in 2021, however. In 2018, the toy company announced that it had begun a production line using sugarcane .

Toymaker Lego said Wednesday itis on track to replace the fossil fuels used in making its signature bricks with more expensive renewable and recycled plastic, as sales and profits surged.

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Lego said it has "decided not to progress" with making its trademark colorful bricks from recycled plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate, known as PET, and after more than two years ...

Danish Toymaker Lego has abandoned its most high-profile effort to ditch oil-based plastics from its bricks after finding that its new material led to higher carbon emissions, the Financial Times ...

Cover art for "Lego Space: 1978-1992." (Image credit: Dark Horse Books) Now, a new 200-page full-color hardcover reference book from author Tim Johnson and publisher Dark Horse Books, titled "Lego ...

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Lego, which sells billions of plastic bricks annually, has tested over 600 different materials to develop a new material that would completely replace its oil-based brick by 2030, but with limited ...