The LEGO Group introduced an replace in its progress on its initiative to transition from single-use plastic to paper-based for its LEGO units, indicating that greater than half of its packaging strains have now accomplished the change, almost doubling from the prior 12 months.
The replace follows an announcement by the corporate in 2023 that it could start phasing out single-use plastic in LEGO packing containers, changing plastic pre-pack baggage with new baggage made with paper, beginning in Europe and Asia.
The initiative types a part of a collection of strikes by the corporate as it really works in direction of attaining its sustainability commitments, which embody a purpose to make its merchandise from extra sustainable supplies, or these produced utilizing renewable or recycled sources and producing little or no waste, by 2032, in addition to its targets to succeed in web zero emissions throughout the worth chain by 2050 and to cut back carbon emissions by 37% by 2032, on a 2019 foundation.
One in every of LEGO Group’s sustainability technique’s key focus areas consists of initiatives to put money into sustainable supplies analysis to cut back the carbon footprint of merchandise and packaging. Final 12 months, the corporate stated that it had examined 180 completely different forms of paper, in an effort to discover a bag that would stand up to the manufacturing course of and wouldn’t tear in transit.
In its replace, LEGO Group stated that 56% of its LEGO bricks packaging strains globally have now transitioned away from utilizing single-use plastic baggage to paper-based options, together with 70% in Europe, 91% in Asia, and 35% within the Americas. The corporate stated that the rollout is almost full in China and Vietnam, and that it’s aiming for full implementation in its remaining factories within the Czech Republic and Hungary by 2026 and Mexico throughout 2027.
LEGO Group added that it’ll search for methods to make the paper-based packing strains work quicker, in order that their output can surpass that of the plastic packaging machines they’re changing.
Jesper Toubøl, VP, R&D Packing and Packaging on the LEGO Group, stated:
“We’re on an ongoing steady enchancment journey. As soon as the roll out of luggage is full, we’ll discover methods to boost and proceed to make the baggage, and the constructing expertise they provide youngsters and households, ever higher.”
