Just in time for the upcoming Black Friday weekend, and the blitz in online shopping as we count the days down towards Christmas, The LEGO Group have announced that it’s taking the next step towards their mission to become an even more sustainable company.
Beginning in Europe, when you order direct from LEGO.com, your shipment packaging will no longer include any single-use plastic!
The biggest impact will be the shift away from plastic, disposable single-use air pillows that protect your LEGO boxes in transit, towards fully recyclable paper that’s certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®C117818).
This doesn’t end there – even the plastic tape used to seal the boxes shut have been swapped to paper-based tape!
This is just a start as LEGO’s ambition is to make all their packaging more sustainable by 2025, and this is a fantastic move from LEGO, especially as we head into the biggest online shopping period in the year.
I really hope we see this extended beyond Europe soon, and also to their other retail partners as well.
To learn more about this change, check out the Sustainability Hub online, and catch up on some of the other major sustainability headlines and announcements from The LEGO Group this year
- LEGO makes it on Time magazine’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021
- LEGO to phase out plastic packaging for baseplates from March 2022
- LEGO unveils first prototype brick created from recycled plastic
- Everything you need to know about LEGO’s recycled plastic prototype brick & sustainability efforts
Do you live in Europe and have ordered from LEGO recently? Have you started seeing these sustainable packaging with your online orders?
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The new packaging is so ugly and horrible. The old one is much nicer and you can reuse it. Now its just cheap paper but costs more!
Love reading this stuff 😃
Good start, but they really need to address the multitude of plastic bags in every kit.
Paper bags in boxes just wrapped up their trial phase in September, and are going to start being phased in on a wider scale starting in 2022!
USA here and it’s been paper since 2019 for me. Though I have to say, I can no longer order more than one item per shipment because if there are off shaped packages in one shipment the entire order arrives extremely damaged to the boxes. I’ve gone as far as filing complaints and loss against Lego and FedEx.
That’s happened to me too. When I wrote to Lego support, they offered to either send me the sets again (after sending the damaged ones back) or give me VIP points. Did your complaints do any good?
Yes, it’s been paper for some time here. Fortunately I’ve yet to have any damage, including precarious shipments which may have a VIP points purchase or GWP’s. And like the other poster noted, I can’t wait until they do away with the plastic baggies in the boxes. Not only wasteful but so darn LOUD trying to stealth-build after everyone else has nodded off… We use re-usable grocery bags, when going to Costco I use the same cardboard produce trays I’ve had in the garage for months, and no-one uses plastic water bottles, all the kids go out to school or play with insulated thermoflasks(haven’t had one lost yet).
And I’m not the one claiming to be ‘environmental’ but avoid single use like the plague. My self-professed activist friends are the ones with mountains of plastic water bottles(probably the worst, most easily avoidable consumer-use trash plague we have now). I am also the only one on the block that mulch-mows about 80+ bags of leaves into my full cleared out wooded areas each year, I think I only put out about 2 bags of yard waste a year into the bin, and the kids have a tot-lot quality 3″ cushioned area to run around in.
We are in Canada and the last lego order shipment had paper packaging too!!
I live in Portugal and the last order have arrive in a small package without any plastic.
To be honest, every time I have ordered from LEGO directly here in Australia, I have received no packaging material whatsoever?
Same here. Big or small sets, one or many; the Lego boxes are always loose inside the shipping box with no packaging material.