Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback
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Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback
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Lego ditches oil-free bricks in sustainability setback - NZ Herald
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Lego ditches effort to make bricks from recycled bottles
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Lego's big plan to make bricks out of recycled plastic bottles would have actually made emissions worse, so it's going back to the drawing board
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