Lego’s Latest Effort to Avoid Oil-Based Plastic Hits Brick Wall
2023年9月28日小于 1 分钟
Lego is scrapping
plans to make its toy bricks
from recycled plastic bottles after determining that switching to the material would result in it producing higher carbon emissions
. The world’s biggest toy maker said it hasn’t given up on its yearslong effort to make its bricks out of something other than petroleum
-based plastics. But it said Monday it is giving up on a high-profile effort launched just over two years ago to make the bricks out of recycled polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, plastic bottles.
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scarp 小冲突或争吵;废弃、报废、拆解或放弃某物
make sth out of 意思是使用某种材料或资源制作或创造出某物
brick 积木;砖块
emissions 发射;排放
petroleum 石油