• metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    4 months ago

    the orphan grinding machine is now powered by solar instead of oil

    renewable plastic is still plastic

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      4 months ago

      Legos aren’t single-use plastic though. Not all plastic is bad, just the plastic that gets thrown away after geing used once.

      Legos aren’t breaking down and polluting the environment just by sitting on a shelf in a nerd’s display case

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    4 months ago

    Lego is doing a great job here exploring alternative materials and encouraging research and production.

    It’s absurd that they seem to be doing it all by themselves. Plastic is everywhere, everybody claims to care, but Lego seems to be the only ones to put their money where their mouth is.

    Probably helps that they’ve realised they can pretty much charge any price for their pieces of plastic. So they have money to spend. But still.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    amazing, yes, finally, sustainable plastic pollution everywhere

    sustainably microplastics in my blood

    sustainable sea turtle murder

    sustainable endocrine disorders

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      Not sure if people realize that Lego has spent a lot of money to engineer a recyclable Lego brick that has the same exact quality as the old ones that they want to get rid of specifically for the environment. The only next best thing to this would be to shut Lego down.

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        Nope, not good enough. No more plastics, anywhere, ever.

        I had someone on here tell me unironically that buying an electric car for my next car and recharging it off solar power on my house was just as bad as driving a gas guzzler everywhere due to microplastics from the tyres and the carbon cost of manufacturing the car.

        I think some people on Lemmy won’t be happy until life is loincloths and spears again.

  • GlenRambo@jlai.lu
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    4 months ago

    Pretty sure most people read these things as Lego is itself renewable.

    Plastics (even renewable) can be at the end of the line and not be renewed into further plastics.