Lego has announced that it will begin to sell its first sustainable, plant-based plastic bricks later this year. Rather than producing the bricks with an oil-based plastic, the company will produce its bricks with a plastic sourced from sugar cane as a means of lowering its carbon footprint. Lego hopes to use the sugar-based plastic in most of its primary products by 2030.

Per Gizmodo, Lego has produced about 400 billion bricks since being founded in 1958; that’s roughly 62 bricks per person. So this is a major step for the company. Leading up to the announcement, Lego had invested around $165 million dollars in the development of the Sustainable Materials Centre, where they sought solutions for ways to mass produce their tiny bricks in a more environmentally friendly. Now, plastic is still plastic and, generally speaking, not great for the environment. But, according to Alix Grabowski, a senior program officer at the World Wildlife Fund, who partnered with Lego to reduce their carbon emissions, progress should come before everything.

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“It is essential that companies in each industry find ways to responsibly source their product materials and help ensure a future where people, nature, and the economy thrive,” said Grabowski in a statement about the joint initiative. Lego echoed the sentiments, saying that the plant-based plastic bricks should “have an even-lighter footprint than the material it replaces.”

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