Lego did not begin with plastic. Its founder, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, started the firm in 1932 as a maker of wooden toys, truncating leg godt, Danish for “play well”, to form its name.

Starting out with wooden yo-yos, Lego has grown to become one of the biggest toy brands in the world - but with that has come ...

Lego will start replacing plastic packaging with paper bags from 2021 as the toy brick maker aims to become more sustainable. Lego said it had been prompted by letters from children asking it to ...

A new year has begun, and Lego is celebrating in style with absolutely blowing the last few quiet months of the year out of ...

The polyethylene pieces will make up just 1% to 2% of the total amount of plastic elements produced by Lego. However, Tim Brooks, the firm's vice-president of environmental responsibility ...

Lego ditched plans to make oil-free bricks, saying the new material from recycled bottles would increase carbon emissions. The toymaker said it remains committed to making Legos from sustainable ...

said LEGO should look for other materials to make its bricks, or ditch the material altogether given the negative health and environmental hazards associated with them. "Recycled plastic can be ...

That means 22 percent of the raw materials used to make its toys came from ... that doesn't necessarily mean a fifth of the plastic is renewable in any given LEGO set. Despite this, the products ...

Since production of the LEGO block in 1949, the design hasn't changed and is available in 53 colours. The blocks are made of a plastic granulate, which is melted and pressed in a moulding machine ...

Lego bricks can of course make distractingly sharp noises (anyone else ever set their parents’ teeth on edge by pouring a torrent of the plastic bricks onto the floor?). But turn this into a ...