[alancarp]

Somebody actually did the math instead of doing the knee-jerk ‘green thing’. Shocking.

[cableguymn]

That’s the green movement in a nut shell

[blackdog]

Grant money ran out, and the grad student interns needed real jobs to pay back their student loans of $250K only to make Leggo Bricks.

[Steely Tom]

As anyone with a modicum of technical knowledge knows, with enough energy, anything can be recycled.

Anyone who likes recycling must like inexpensive energy.

[DesertRhino]

Keep going with the old foot penetrators. Future generations deserve the fun also.

[Repeal The 17th]

If lego was sincerely concerned about their impact on “climate change”,
they would simply cease production of the product.

[Republican Wildcat]

Since then, however, Lego has found that making bricks from the recycled material would require investing in new equipment and involve more steps, which would ultimately lead to more planet-heating pollution than the status quo, a company spokesperson told CNN Monday.

Ah, well then it is time for them to shut down operations until and unless they come up with a better solution. I mean, why is it okay for them to continue contributing to this "crisis" in the mean time? If it is a crisis, drastic measures must be taken.

[ConservativeInPA]

LEGO Faces Boycott Following Pride Campaign

[TigersEye]

They should go with the method that is most cost effective.
CO2 doesn’t heat the planet and plants crave it.

[zeugma]

Lego tolerances are simply too tight to use cheap plastic.

[Alberta's Child]

However, Lego is “not abandoning [its] effort to make oil-free bricks” and remains “fully committed to making Lego bricks from sustainable materials by 2032.”

Sounds like they just want to make Lincoln Logs.

[Sisyphean Gardens]

I’ve worked in the container production industry for over 40 years, and in the PET bottle production industry for the last 25 years.

This is the tip of the iceberg of the folly that is the recycling movement.

There is an un-stoppable push for the global beverage industry to switch to 100% recycled PET, rPET, from 100% virgin PET resin.

There are a number of problems with this:

1. PET containers are not infinitely recyclable. The material oxidizes and gradually turns an unattractive shade of yellow, necessitating adding colorant to cover this up which causes processing problems and increases the cost

2. It doesn’t stretch as well, which creates defects and causes more scrap. (increasing the cost)

3. The rPET resin costs 30% more than the virgin PET

4. It takes 30-50% more energy to produce it

All of this makes it an insane choice from a performance, economic, and “Carbon Footprint” standpoint. (If one believes in the global hoax that is the carbon footprint / climate change movement.)

The global beverage industry is well down the road into this process with no end in sight.

It is the definition of insanity.

[CharlesWayneCT]

oil is sustainable. It takes a LONG time, but it is a natural product of the environment.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Also, once you make a lego, it exists for ever. People hardly ever throw them out, they are highly coveted.

So why would an environmentalist be mad that a lot of oil is locked up in lego bricks? Isn’t that like “carbon capture” at it’s best?