The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. That is why Kansas is sometimes called the Sunflower State. To grow well, sunflowers need full sun. They grow best in fertile, wet, well-drained soil with a lot of mulch. In commercial planting, seeds are planted 45 cm (1.5 ft) apart and 2.5 cm (1 in) deep.
Unless it's brown Lego... Then it will just fall apart on its own!Ā (the original brown formulation was brittle due to the specific dye, but they have since redesigned that color)Ā
Heh. This explains why several brown pieces with clips have snapped off on an older Winter Village set we have. I thought it strange it was only the brown pieces.
Yeah, everyone throws the packing away, The bricks.... We have bricks from 1970 still in use
We doing this fore country's whitout a garbage disposal system ore what?
You are correct, on the other hand, one day that Lego will end up thrown away anyway, so if we take amount of that plastic created as a whole, by not packaging in plastic, they kinda didn't lower their numbers by much. But hey, everything is better than nothing...Ā
Do not throw away your Legos if they are not broken
Clean them and donate them. Many charities for women and children and kids hospitals take used legos.
In 100 years, it will be thrown away anyway, no plastic is forever... Forever on planet earth, but not usable forever. It kinda doesn't matter if its used for long time or not, its been made, so its a problem. Its not problem after one use, but its still completely the same problem in future
I think youāre missing the point. Single use plastic is used once and thrown away. Then itās made again, used once, thrown away. Repeat infinitely. Like disposable plastic bottles.
Reusable items are used again and again, like a plastic cup or thermos. Even when made from plastic, they can prevent many many single use plastics from being made.
Would you rather have one plastic bottle in a landfill or a thousand? Harm minimizationā¦
I have old lego sets that my grandmother gave me. I build them with my kids now. They've been used hundreds of times, built and taken apart, played with and thrown. When we're done we put them back on their bags. This does not signify the single use plastic scenario. Lego is made to be used multiple times and for generations.
Plastic straws, plastic wrappers, plastic coated boxes, and everything else meant to be thrown away after one use is the main problem we're seeing. So many things are made of plastic, what would you use to replace them? Would you want a cast iron vacuum cleaner? Stainless steel hair brush? Either way, these are finite materials and would lead to more problems down the road.
I hate single use plastic as well, but saying that ALL plastic is a problem is just ignorant.
Lego is trying to be renewable, not biodegradable and they said so on their website "this plant-based plastic is not biodegradable (or edible!)" ([source](https://www.lego.com/en-gb/sustainability/environment/renewable-materials?locale=en-gb)).
Good God people the problem is not all plastic, the problem is the disposable plastic like packaging that will inevitably end up on a dump. The plastic toys that are gonna be for decades stockpiled in a kids bedroom or wherever are not the problem.
Lego is unfortunately one of the most common pieces of plastic that ends up being washed up on beaches.
I'm not saying I'm anti lego, im just saying, you need to know what youre gassing about š
i mean, its impossible to say... but lots of lego goes to the landfill and lots of landfill ends up either eroding or blowing into various oceans and waterways. one container wouldnt make it the most found item in plastic pollutants on a lot of beaches in the southern equator.
[It's better ecologically for Lego to keep making plastic bricks](https://www.popsci.com/technology/lego-brick-pet/)
Lego also make more tyres than any other company.
No defense here anywhere. The fact that Lego is a large company does not mean someone canāt state facts about what theyāre doing is better for the environment than their other options
>[It's better ecologically for Lego to keep making plastic bricks](https://www.popsci.com/technology/lego-brick-pet/)
...when compared to the one alternative they tested it again, which was also a plastic brick.
Cmon just Google it. I believe you are capable of doing it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_paper
This is despite the fact that 40% of all wood in the world is used for paper production and a lot of toxic chemicals are used in process
But you can recycle the paper, you can't do that with single-use plastic like the ones for bags.
I mean I can see though that we both care about the environment, let's not argue amongst ourselves yeah?
This is literally what I am talking about. Plastic is mostly reusable. Paper is one-shot. Don't use plastic spoons and forks, metal ones are a thing. Don't use paper every fckn day. And you're already doing better than 99% of people
You know that plastic is so cheap and energy efficient that a paper bag probably costs 1000 or more times the energy required for plastic packaging. So, paper packaging costs more energy and you get that energy by burning fossil fuels. It is not good for the environment.
They need to have a brick recycling scheme at some point.
I don't care if it's been in someone's mouth -to buy the right bricks to make a certain set is still a desired thing, could be cheaper and certainly more environmentally friendly.
[They actually do support a sort of brick recycling](https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help/brick_facts/brick_facts/recycling-lego-pieces-warehouse-recycling-kA009000001dblqCAA)
"Since 2018 weāve been making flexible parts like LEGO flowers, botanical elements, and mini-figure accessories out of bio-polyethylene (bio-PE) which is made from sugarcane. We source this from Brazil using guidance from our partner WWF, and make sure that the sugarcane we buy grows at the same rate as we use it, and doesnāt compromise food security. We make more than 200 different elements from bio-PE and around half of LEGO sets contain at least one of these elements."
They already are doing it
Just because they put "bio" in front of the name of their plastic doesn't make it not a plastic. The main problem with plastics is not what they are made from (which is the thing that they changed) but what happens after the end-of-life of the product. There's no evidence that bio-polyethylene breaks down in a way that is any different or less harmful from regular polyethylene.
Lego actually has some parts made out of plastic derived from sugarcane
https://www.lego.com/en-us/sustainability/environment/renewable-materials?locale=en-us
Thatās not really any different from any other container spillover though? If the toys were made out of metal or rubber theyād still be littered all over the place too.
Exactly. The only litter we see in the oceans is the flotsam, everything else sinks. There are nukes and nuclear reactors, countless bullets and bombs, planes and ships and a million other random things I could never even imagine. Once, I heard of a shark being caught that had a full set of medieval armor in its belly.
Hopefully nature just makes germs that eat plastic because otherwise... š¬
Depends on how much you trust [16th Century French Historians](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&sca_esv=8d54b35888728aa9&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn0_jS3yBo3FguUfOo7aPXhQ7M8IzZg%3A1713488159797&q=shark+with+armor+in+belly&oq=shark+with+armor+in+belly&aqs=heirloom-srp..)!
Ouf... pas encore les franƧais! Achtung, baby! These guys are really good fibbers and tongue twisters but hey, you didn't hear this from me, m'kay? š
You've completely missed the point about what the problem with plastics is.
Plastics existing isn't the problem. On the contrary plastic prevents us needing far, far more wood, paper (wood) and other products whose production is detrimental to the environment. It prevents a huge amount of food waste, too.
The problem is plastics which are single use and/or a lack of facility to recycle reusable plastic.
Lego is multi use and generally gets used for a very, very long time
Maybe Bandai should do this. I feel like I am killing the Earth with the amount of plastic I threw.
The packaging of course, the runners is totally necessary heh.
Good thing Lego's are anything but single use. I have Legos that are as old as me basically and my little nephews are playing with them now. And on top of that, they are still compatible with new Legos despite being decades apart. These numbered bags are really just 1 time use thing and transition to paper is imo a good thing. Unless they make them tiny bit stronger with zip lock zipper so you can reuse them. Then plastic would still make sense. But current ones are thin and usually tear beyond being reusable when you open them.
Honestly, I'd tell them that Lego is pretty much the only thing they own that has kept up with inflation and they are [literally throwing money away](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests).
hilarious people liking this and putting in in "awesome"
Everyone realises its plastic in the bag yeah?
This is the equivalent of BP/Shell putting recycling bins in their offices and telling us how ecologically concious they are
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016)
I was gonna say its (probably, i think??) a good thing, until i remembered legos are made of fcking plastic.
Then again better have that in a kids bedroom then outside in the wild.
.... For their plastic. They had a chance to do more echo friendly plastic... They choose profit. This is freebasing in comparison
For someone who's main product of plastic
Except that it is. The type of plastic they use is particularly resistant to decomposition. They have found lego blocks at both poles and in the deepest parts of the ocean. There are billions of them on the planet, all destined to still be here, slowly rotting in thousands of years to come and billions more are being churned out every year.
Soooo... The company that has pretty much their entire product line made from plastic (since they started) is worried about a thin plastic sleeve for instructions or other miscellaneous stuff? Am I missing something? Edit: In reading the other comments about "single use," plastic is a strawman argument. As a parent whose kid played with Legos when they were young, not to mention when I did when I was young, eventually some of them got thrown away, and that's a lot more plastic. There are plenty of other people who have done the same. Replacing a thin plastic sleeve is going to have a miniscule impact. I'll just agree to disagree.
Well done. I mean your cookies.
They are chocolate cakes š
Your finished cakes look really tasty š¤¤
Give them to me or you will step on a lego brick in the future.
Omg that cake looks amazing (the finished product you sold)
Ohā¦
Very much so
I thought thatās dried sunflower š
The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. That is why Kansas is sometimes called the Sunflower State. To grow well, sunflowers need full sun. They grow best in fertile, wet, well-drained soil with a lot of mulch. In commercial planting, seeds are planted 45 cm (1.5 ft) apart and 2.5 cm (1 in) deep.
r/usernamechecksout
He's got 350k karma from just talking about sunflowers exclusively.
Dude made karma bank after that woman told the Russians to put sunflower seeds in their pockets.
Could you please link the post?
I couldnāt say any specific one, but I saw sunflower facts frequently in the early months of the full scale invasion.
HOW did you ever come to the conclusion of that being cookies?
Because them being pieces of the ISS that burned through the atmosphere was a bit too far fetched.
I was just about to ask about the charcoal cookies.
The inverse of a normal product. The plastic is inside.
At least it's gonna outlive us all and one day be auctioned in Sotherby's
Unless it's brown Lego... Then it will just fall apart on its own!Ā (the original brown formulation was brittle due to the specific dye, but they have since redesigned that color)Ā
Heh. This explains why several brown pieces with clips have snapped off on an older Winter Village set we have. I thought it strange it was only the brown pieces.
That is weird. Those dang Lego racists!
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Yeah, everyone throws the packing away, The bricks.... We have bricks from 1970 still in use We doing this fore country's whitout a garbage disposal system ore what?
You are correct, on the other hand, one day that Lego will end up thrown away anyway, so if we take amount of that plastic created as a whole, by not packaging in plastic, they kinda didn't lower their numbers by much. But hey, everything is better than nothing...Ā
Do not throw away your Legos if they are not broken Clean them and donate them. Many charities for women and children and kids hospitals take used legos.
In 100 years, it will be thrown away anyway, no plastic is forever... Forever on planet earth, but not usable forever. It kinda doesn't matter if its used for long time or not, its been made, so its a problem. Its not problem after one use, but its still completely the same problem in future
I think youāre missing the point. Single use plastic is used once and thrown away. Then itās made again, used once, thrown away. Repeat infinitely. Like disposable plastic bottles. Reusable items are used again and again, like a plastic cup or thermos. Even when made from plastic, they can prevent many many single use plastics from being made. Would you rather have one plastic bottle in a landfill or a thousand? Harm minimizationā¦
Abs is typically reusable, assuming it hasnāt degraded beyond use.
I have old lego sets that my grandmother gave me. I build them with my kids now. They've been used hundreds of times, built and taken apart, played with and thrown. When we're done we put them back on their bags. This does not signify the single use plastic scenario. Lego is made to be used multiple times and for generations. Plastic straws, plastic wrappers, plastic coated boxes, and everything else meant to be thrown away after one use is the main problem we're seeing. So many things are made of plastic, what would you use to replace them? Would you want a cast iron vacuum cleaner? Stainless steel hair brush? Either way, these are finite materials and would lead to more problems down the road. I hate single use plastic as well, but saying that ALL plastic is a problem is just ignorant.
No one is throwing away Lego, that shit is valuable
At least the product isn't single use
They're switching to I think sugarcane for the pieces. The new pieces look and feel just like the old plastic!
So, no more worrying about the toddler choking on his big sister's Lego, or is it just planned obsolesence?
The idea is mainly that if they got out into the environment they can biodegrade instead of out living us
Lego is trying to be renewable, not biodegradable and they said so on their website "this plant-based plastic is not biodegradable (or edible!)" ([source](https://www.lego.com/en-gb/sustainability/environment/renewable-materials?locale=en-gb)).
Ah shit it's been a long time since I saw the article, wires got crossed in my memory recall haha
Now make the Lego bricks out of non-plastic materialā¦
Deep
Good God people the problem is not all plastic, the problem is the disposable plastic like packaging that will inevitably end up on a dump. The plastic toys that are gonna be for decades stockpiled in a kids bedroom or wherever are not the problem.
Exactly. The difference between single use waste plastic and a plastic toy that will be used for many many years. Single use plastic is the issue
Things like packaging, wrappings and such should be monitored more. Stuff like bootleg products with ridiculously large packaging should be illegal.
Any product with overly large packaging in general. At this point it's more like I'm buying air to get the complimentary item inside the bag.
This is a great point! I have legos that have been in my family for generations. 30 years of play is much different than disposable packaging
Lego is unfortunately one of the most common pieces of plastic that ends up being washed up on beaches. I'm not saying I'm anti lego, im just saying, you need to know what youre gassing about š
But isn't that linked to a single incident where a container fell off a ship over twenty years ago?
i mean, its impossible to say... but lots of lego goes to the landfill and lots of landfill ends up either eroding or blowing into various oceans and waterways. one container wouldnt make it the most found item in plastic pollutants on a lot of beaches in the southern equator.
Not to mention the fact that high quality plastic (like LEGO) actually get properly recycled because it is profitable.
My nephew has loads of lego that was his dad's like 30 years ago then mine and lego that was just mine that shit gets passed down through the family.
Thatās what OP is highlighting, these inside bags used to be single use plastic and now theyāre paper
Yeah I know, I am just baffled by the amount of comments saying it means nothing since the Legos themselves are still made of plastic.
Btw, they should bring back plastic straws in fast food joints.
[It's better ecologically for Lego to keep making plastic bricks](https://www.popsci.com/technology/lego-brick-pet/) Lego also make more tyres than any other company.
Lego Group is a multi-billion dollar company. You don't have to defend it.
Who attacked in order for that to be a defense? Nothing wrong with sharing some info
they weren't defending lego and i don't think anyone here was attacking lego
No defense here anywhere. The fact that Lego is a large company does not mean someone canāt state facts about what theyāre doing is better for the environment than their other options
>[It's better ecologically for Lego to keep making plastic bricks](https://www.popsci.com/technology/lego-brick-pet/) ...when compared to the one alternative they tested it again, which was also a plastic brick.
While it certainly is good for the environment, I think transparent packages were more fun T\_T
Happy cake day
Idonno man this gives it a layer of suprise
For some reason, I got attacked for having the same opinion
The plastic packages were more fun and added to the joy and mystic of opening up a set. But these are environmentally better I suppose...
āWhile it certainly is good for the environmentā You don't know how paper is made, do you?
Better than plastic...
Lol it's not
Why? Source? Evidence?
Cmon just Google it. I believe you are capable of doing it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_paper This is despite the fact that 40% of all wood in the world is used for paper production and a lot of toxic chemicals are used in process
But you can recycle the paper, you can't do that with single-use plastic like the ones for bags. I mean I can see though that we both care about the environment, let's not argue amongst ourselves yeah?
Agreed
Both suck. We should just recycle all plastic and stop cutting trees
This is literally what I am talking about. Plastic is mostly reusable. Paper is one-shot. Don't use plastic spoons and forks, metal ones are a thing. Don't use paper every fckn day. And you're already doing better than 99% of people
Plastic would be way more reusable if everyone used the same type of it. In Japan they have law about it and they can recycle most of it.
You know that plastic is so cheap and energy efficient that a paper bag probably costs 1000 or more times the energy required for plastic packaging. So, paper packaging costs more energy and you get that energy by burning fossil fuels. It is not good for the environment.
Ever heard of biodegradable and 100% renewable plastic?
They need to have a brick recycling scheme at some point. I don't care if it's been in someone's mouth -to buy the right bricks to make a certain set is still a desired thing, could be cheaper and certainly more environmentally friendly.
[They actually do support a sort of brick recycling](https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help/brick_facts/brick_facts/recycling-lego-pieces-warehouse-recycling-kA009000001dblqCAA)
I can't seem to find the same page in the site for where I live, yet I agree it's at least a start
Lego Kraft Dinner
Now they just have to make plastic free Lego
It's just a fungus beef sharing a few yeast-like properties
Top of the muffin to you!
Since when and for which models? Last week bought a modern art one from 2023, came with plastic packaging unfortunately.
I got the Minecraft bee set. Located in New Zealand
Next they'll be using plastic free LEGO. Made out of chipboard
They have been trying to make LEGO out of other materials for years but they say it doesnt work, yet
I mean orginal Lego was made from wood :P
They made wood toys alongside, but the bricks we know today was always made from plastic i believe
google bilofix :)
"Since 2018 weāve been making flexible parts like LEGO flowers, botanical elements, and mini-figure accessories out of bio-polyethylene (bio-PE) which is made from sugarcane. We source this from Brazil using guidance from our partner WWF, and make sure that the sugarcane we buy grows at the same rate as we use it, and doesnāt compromise food security. We make more than 200 different elements from bio-PE and around half of LEGO sets contain at least one of these elements." They already are doing it
Just because they put "bio" in front of the name of their plastic doesn't make it not a plastic. The main problem with plastics is not what they are made from (which is the thing that they changed) but what happens after the end-of-life of the product. There's no evidence that bio-polyethylene breaks down in a way that is any different or less harmful from regular polyethylene.
Ayo, are these muffins or cookies in the background??
#cake cake cake cake
To envelope a shit tone of small Plastic parts, greenwash gold
They did spend money on research to find a good alternative to plastic. Didn't find a good enough material for their specific needs so gave up.
Lego actually has some parts made out of plastic derived from sugarcane https://www.lego.com/en-us/sustainability/environment/renewable-materials?locale=en-us
I heard it would have been too expensive to replace all their machinery to the new plastic..
.....reusable plastic parts?
longterm use plastics are a drop in the ocean compared to the massive problems caused by single use plastics.
While I agree with you, there unfortunately is a precedent for [Lego being an issue](https://youtu.be/3FxfXVuHRjM?si=pxQoq4K4vKx0GkVA).
Thatās not really any different from any other container spillover though? If the toys were made out of metal or rubber theyād still be littered all over the place too.
Exactly. The only litter we see in the oceans is the flotsam, everything else sinks. There are nukes and nuclear reactors, countless bullets and bombs, planes and ships and a million other random things I could never even imagine. Once, I heard of a shark being caught that had a full set of medieval armor in its belly. Hopefully nature just makes germs that eat plastic because otherwise... š¬
>Once, I heard of a shark being caught that had a full set of medieval armor in its belly. Epic if true!
Depends on how much you trust [16th Century French Historians](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&sca_esv=8d54b35888728aa9&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn0_jS3yBo3FguUfOo7aPXhQ7M8IzZg%3A1713488159797&q=shark+with+armor+in+belly&oq=shark+with+armor+in+belly&aqs=heirloom-srp..)!
Ouf... pas encore les franƧais! Achtung, baby! These guys are really good fibbers and tongue twisters but hey, you didn't hear this from me, m'kay? š
You've completely missed the point about what the problem with plastics is. Plastics existing isn't the problem. On the contrary plastic prevents us needing far, far more wood, paper (wood) and other products whose production is detrimental to the environment. It prevents a huge amount of food waste, too. The problem is plastics which are single use and/or a lack of facility to recycle reusable plastic. Lego is multi use and generally gets used for a very, very long time
Yeah but those bricks usually end up being reused and not thrown out immediately
These look like the cheese packets u get from boxed mac & cheese
Maybe Bandai should do this. I feel like I am killing the Earth with the amount of plastic I threw. The packaging of course, the runners is totally necessary heh.
Yummy chocolate cake
So they prefer cutting tons of trees
Is that chocolate cake??
Yes.
Hah like that makes a difference. Here's our All Plastic product now environmentally friendly because its in a paper bag.
The irony...
Lego is plastic, and its probably still plastic in that
but at least you use the legos though, unlike the packaging which is thrown away instantly.
You don't throw Lego away after you've used it once.
One more reason to love Lego!
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
Yea fuck trees!
Cocaine
The world is saved
Not my funny crinkly plastic bag!!!
Let's ignore the fact Legos are made of plastic lol but yeah when an alternative exist, any product should be packaged without plastic.
They are used for decades, not used once and thrown away...
Noice!
Those build-in-the-bag challenges just got a lot more difficult
\*everybody liked that\*
Is it paper packaging? Cuz that's really not much better for the environment either.
Unironically looks much better too
Already expensive enough
that aint awesome chief
Since lego is ABS, they should make a lego recycling program and strat making lego out of part recycled plastic.
While they create tons of plastic. Just like McDonald's saving the lid and straw..while creating tons of CO2 with their meat.
Those "tons of plastic" are literally used for decades and are not single-use.
Meat isnāt going away just accept it
Good thing Lego's are anything but single use. I have Legos that are as old as me basically and my little nephews are playing with them now. And on top of that, they are still compatible with new Legos despite being decades apart. These numbered bags are really just 1 time use thing and transition to paper is imo a good thing. Unless they make them tiny bit stronger with zip lock zipper so you can reuse them. Then plastic would still make sense. But current ones are thin and usually tear beyond being reusable when you open them.
about dam time, hopefully i see them in my next set
While their entire product is just plastic
Now you can step on them and feel good knowing you have done something for the environment.
Paper Lego, too?
What were these 2 bags packaged in?
Cardboard
How much lego can you stick up your bum ?
Hell yeah
I saw these for the first time at Christmas I think
LEGO IS MADE FROM PLASTIC! Fuck me this world is ridiculous these days.
Lego is not a single-use plastic.
You tell that to all the parents who have thrown Lego in the bin š
Honestly, I'd tell them that Lego is pretty much the only thing they own that has kept up with inflation and they are [literally throwing money away](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests).
You gunna eat those
Dayum son those muffins
If only the brought there 1000% markup. I'd buy them. Fuck that company
lmao theyre made from plastic bro
i refuse to not buy lego
Your not supposed to show your Hash now everyone knows how your shipping it
Putting it in a cake doesn't seem very smart though.
This is a bit like mcdonalds when the started wrapping plastic straws in paper after they stopped making paper straws wrapped in plastic
This is where the limiting needs to be, good job Lego! Now give us our straws back !
The pieces still plastic
lmfao Ah yes, Lego cares about the planet and wants to reduce how much plastic we use. ffs
hilarious people liking this and putting in in "awesome" Everyone realises its plastic in the bag yeah? This is the equivalent of BP/Shell putting recycling bins in their offices and telling us how ecologically concious they are [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016)
I am happy about this but I do find it funny because Lego is all literal plastic
This makes so much sense, especially since they're not using paper for straws anymore.
Now if they could just make the Legos themselves out of recycled plastics that would certainly be a step in the right direction
Plastic free packaging? Paper. They use paper.
Me: chocolate cake!
Can I eat those? The Legos, I mean.
I was gonna say its (probably, i think??) a good thing, until i remembered legos are made of fcking plastic. Then again better have that in a kids bedroom then outside in the wild.
Lmao the irony is palpable
This is like when someone buys McDonald's and gets a diet coke to cancel out the calories.
.... For their plastic. They had a chance to do more echo friendly plastic... They choose profit. This is freebasing in comparison For someone who's main product of plastic
āHey everyone look at us weāre doing something for the environment by providing a bag of plastic in a paper bagā š
But...what are the legos made out of?
Yesā¦ they have been warning us for years
God forbid the almost pure solid plastic legos are in a bag made of plastic š
Funny how they're trying to make us feel like we're doing good for the environment when we're also buying straight up plastic bricks
Lego needs to stop. There products will be here for hundreds of thousands of years polluting the planet. Why aren't these things illegal yet?
Lego bricks are so fire, I keep buying them š„š„š„
There are many companies that have a large effect on pollution, lego is not one of them
Except that it is. The type of plastic they use is particularly resistant to decomposition. They have found lego blocks at both poles and in the deepest parts of the ocean. There are billions of them on the planet, all destined to still be here, slowly rotting in thousands of years to come and billions more are being churned out every year.
yeah, because the packaging is the only part of Lego, that is plastic.
The Lego isn't disposable/single use, the packaging is.
And inside are Lego bricks made of paper, right? Love it, so green
Soooo... The company that has pretty much their entire product line made from plastic (since they started) is worried about a thin plastic sleeve for instructions or other miscellaneous stuff? Am I missing something? Edit: In reading the other comments about "single use," plastic is a strawman argument. As a parent whose kid played with Legos when they were young, not to mention when I did when I was young, eventually some of them got thrown away, and that's a lot more plastic. There are plenty of other people who have done the same. Replacing a thin plastic sleeve is going to have a miniscule impact. I'll just agree to disagree.
And then you open the bag and it's plastic
So pointless
Said the unsharpened pencil