{"id":8548,"date":"2018-03-20T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2018-03-20T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T04:10:27","slug":"legos-will-be-made-of-100-plant-based-plastic-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/2018\/03\/20\/legos-will-be-made-of-100-plant-based-plastic-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Legos Will Be Made of 100% Plant-Based Plastic by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top-meta clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Danish toy maker Lego\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-us\/aboutus\/news-room\/2018\/march\/pfp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced last week<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that all its core products and packaging will soon be made from \u201cbio\u201dplastic.<\/p>\n<p>Plant-based Lego leaves, trees and bushes are already in production and will be included in all<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/offer-listing\/B00NVDN56Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00NVDN56Y&linkCode=am2&tag=polyamorydiar-20&linkId=afdc481465216c46233ad31bbc9e81bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-amzn-asin=\"B00NVDN56Y\">Lego packages<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=polyamorydiar-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B00NVDN56Y\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>\u00a0later this year. All of the company\u2019s iconic building blocks and toys will be from plant-based plastic by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00NVDN56Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00NVDN56Y&linkCode=as2&tag=polyamorydiar-20&linkId=ebaf495997bb98e8f53749f0f42d2b00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-amzn-asin=\"B00NVDN56Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=B00NVDN56Y&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=polyamorydiar-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=polyamorydiar-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B00NVDN56Y\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The blocks will be identical in appearance and just as durable as the old ones, the company says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still plastic, non-biodegradable, and far from perfect, but unlike the old Lego material, it\u2019s highly recyclable and comes from a renewable resource \u2013 sugarcane grown in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4881 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/https_blueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_uploads_card_image_518541_d49380e2-b7bf-4f81-9ce4-d4bdb9e81392.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/https_blueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_uploads_card_image_518541_d49380e2-b7bf-4f81-9ce4-d4bdb9e81392.jpg 950w, https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/https_blueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_uploads_card_image_518541_d49380e2-b7bf-4f81-9ce4-d4bdb9e81392-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/https_blueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_uploads_card_image_518541_d49380e2-b7bf-4f81-9ce4-d4bdb9e81392-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/https_blueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_uploads_card_image_518541_d49380e2-b7bf-4f81-9ce4-d4bdb9e81392-98x55.jpg 98w\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some environmentalists call the move a step in the right direction. Others are concerned about how many acres of rain forest might need to be cleared for sugar plantations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll find haters, but it\u2019s way better than petroleum,\u201d Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biologist at UC San Diego,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/03\/01\/lego-starts-making-toys-from-sugarcane-sustainability\/#vKnDFc9NKOqq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Mashable<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Switching from oil-based to plant-based plastics cuts the carbon footprint of a product by around 70 percent, Mayfield said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/2018\/03\/07\/legos-plant-based-plastic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Return to Now<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women of Green<\/a>\u00a0is TURNING UP THE VOLUME of the feminine voice on the planet in order to create the world we know is possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some environmentalists call the move a step in the right direction. Others are concerned about how many acres of rain forest might need to be cleared for sugar plantations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll find haters, but it\u2019s way better than petroleum,\u201d Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biologist at UC San Diego, told Mashable.<\/p>\n<p>Switching from oil-based to plant-based plastics cuts the carbon footprint of a product by around 70 percent, Mayfield said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1344,1359,1348,1343],"tags":[2429,2428,2430,8],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-featured-post","category-leadership","category-nature","tag-legos-bio-plastic","tag-legos-sugarcane","tag-plant-based-legos","tag-women-of-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}