LEGO has been doing various initiatives to help the environment and to use sustainable materials by the end of the next decade. They have recently announced that the company will be phasing out plastic retail bags in 2020. The plastic bags used at LEGO Brand and Certified Stores will be replaced by sustainably sourced paper bags. Some stores may have already been doing this for months now but their plan is for all stores to switch over. Check out the full press release below.

Single use plastic retail bags to be phased out of LEGO® Stores in 2020

As part of the LEGO Group’s ambition to use 100% sustainable materials in its packaging, the company is replacing single-use plastic retail bags with ones made from sustainably sourced paper.

[Billund, November 2019] The LEGO Group announced today that it will phase out plastic retail bags in all LEGO® Stores globally in 2020. The move, which is part of the LEGO Group’s ambition to use 100% sustainable materials in its packaging by 2025, will see all plastic retail bags replaced with ones made from sustainably sourced paper across the fleet of more than 500 stores.

The new paper bags will be introduced in stores once they have used up existing stocks of plastic retail bags to ensure no unnecessary waste is generated. The paper bags are made from 100% Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) certified paper and are fully recyclable.

The LEGO Group’s sustainable packaging ambition focuses on finding sustainable packaging alternatives by 2025 that are:

– Renewable: 100%