The Lego Group has announced it will double its spending on sustainability initiatives by next year compared to 2023.
In a new post on LinkedIn, the Lego Group said there “isn’t a single solution” to building a more sustainable future.
The company is investing in various initiatives across all parts of its business, including creating more sustainable Lego bricks, expanding its take-back programmes, and using more renewable energy.
Via a separate earnings report, the Lego Group said it continues to increase its purchases of plastic resin made mostly from sustainable sources like renewable or recycled material.
In the first half of 2024, 30 percent of all resin purchased was certified mass balance, which equates to an estimated average of 22 percent material from renewable and recycled sources.
Compare this to the 2023 full year, when just 18 percent of resin purchased was certified mass balance, which equated to 12 percent sustainable sources.
Niels Christiansen, the Lego Group’s CEO, said the company has “made significant progress on increasing the amount of sustainable materials used in our products” in the first half of this year.
In the coming years, the Lego Group aims to buy more than half of its raw materials from sustainable sources.
Lego’s sustainability initiatives
Additionally, the company is working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent by 2032 compared to 2019. It aims to be net zero by 2050. As part of this, it requires suppliers to set targets to reduce emissions by 2026, and further by 2028.
Also, the Lego Group has expanded its brick take-back service, called Lego Replay, to the UK. It continues to pilot models in the US and Europe.
The Lego Group recently committed to triple its sustainability spending over four years to $1.4 billion.
Previously, the group scrapped plans to make its bricks from recycled plastic as using the new sustainable material does not reduce carbon emissions.
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