But Lego makes thousands of pounds of new plastic toys every year. I’m not sure I want to support that.
We’re looking at buying used bricks in bulk, and you can find instructions online. But then you’re bidding against everyone else.
There is nothing inherently wrong about plastic. Plastic waste is the problem. Cheap plastic waste.
In general Lego
- is used for decades
- is not cheap
Plastic has it’s uses. It’s not inherently evil.
Lego’s use of plastic is the best kind.
There is nothing wrong in supporting Lego.
It still consumes a non renewable resource, and a lot of Lego still ends up in the environment or landfills.
As does most of our current industrial processes.
I really can't see beyond blind value signaling why anyone would want to single out Lego. "It's a really familiar brand and uses plastics - let's take them down a notch". Far too easy and also misplaced.
If all companies made their products as lasting as Lego we would have lot less problems.
Lego should be held as an aspirational role model, not a pariah.
Thanks for backing up the original OP's reasoning. That's why you should always try to reuse instead of buying new.
I totally agree. I disagreed with targeting specific companies especially when their product is very long lasting with robust resale market (meaning the chances of the product just ending up in a landfill are small).
Who is singling out Lego? Every company needs to drastically reduce their consumption of non-renewable resources, their generation of CO2, and their environmental impact. Lego makes 60 billion bricks a year, it's a scale big enough to not get a free pass.
They were also serving cookies individually wrapped in plastic.
One of the two is biodegradable.
However, LEGO is a completely optional/luxury aspect that won't affect economies at large, so perhaps it's better to start there. There are probably many of these "drops in the bucket" that together form something impactful.
The solution is not to remove all the luxuries (LEGO), the solution is enabling our basic necessities to work without plastics.
(Reducing LEGO is a "vitamin" and reducing single use packagin is "aspirin" in SAAS parlance, if that makes sense. It's good that LEGO takes responsibility for their own stuff, I'm not shitting on them.)
It's not quite the same as one-use, disposable plastic items.