Lego’s Latest Effort to Avoid Oil-Based Plastic Hits Brick Wall

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