So we’re going to spend tons of money and use lots of energy to reduce a relatively infinitesimal amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, producing ethylene, “a valuable chemical” whose major use is the in the production of plastic. Sounds good to me.
That sure would be some expensive polyethylene made out of carbon dioxide.
Never mind the fact that they are way, way overstating the amount of carbon dioxide they claim is in the atmosphere.
Lego intensifies search for sustainable bricks, September 16, 2020.Danish toymaker Lego said on Tuesday it would invest $400 million over the next three years to step up efforts to produce its colourful bricks using sustainable materials instead of oil-based plastic.
The investment will help Lego to reach a target of becoming carbon neutral by 2022 in terms of its production, as well as phase out single-use plastic in packaging by 2025, and replace plastic bricks with ones made from sustainable materials by the end of the decade.
Lego uses some 90,000 tonnes of plastic in its products each year but since 2018 the company has made some of the less rigid parts of Lego sets, such as plants and trees, from bio-polyethylene, a type of plastic made from ethanol, produced using sugarcane.
The material does not work as well for the standard hard bricks that are still made from oil-based plastic. Lego is testing how to use bio-polyethylene for the hard bricks.