The LEGO Group, in its financial results for 2025, announced that more than half of the raw materials used to make LEGO bricks now come from renewable and recycled sources, rising from 33% in 2024 to 52% in 2025.
The LEGO Group reported record financial results in 2025. Revenue increased by 12%, operating profit rose 18%, and consumer sales increased 16%.
Moving Away from Fossil-Based Plastic
LEGO is working to reduce the environmental impact of all its operations as part of its target to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 37% by 2032, compared with 2019 levels, and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, while also reducing waste and water usage.
LEGO is also working to ensure that all its packaging is more sustainable and to eliminate single-use plastic from its products.
The company is constantly looking for new ways to reuse and recycle LEGO bricks and aims to develop solutions that keep them in use for longer.
How LEGO Does It
LEGO is purchasing more renewable and recycled materials than before in order to reduce its reliance on virgin fossil-based materials. There are two main ways the company is doing this.
The first is by using recycled and renewable materials, such as sugarcane or kitchen worktop offcuts, directly in some bricks and elements. This is known as the physical content approach.
The second approach is the mass balance approach, where, after rigorous safety testing, the company gradually increases the share of renewable and recycled inputs used in production.
The company revealed that in 2025 it increased the mass balance approach to 60% of its purchased materials, up from 47% in 2024, and directly sourced 4% sustainable materials, resulting in an estimated average of 52% renewable and recycled materials.
The company also noted that it used less virgin fossil-based material to produce bricks in 2025 than in 2022, despite 29% revenue growth over the same period.
As part of its sustainable materials efforts, the LEGO Group also announced an initiative in 2023 to begin phasing out single-use plastic packaging in LEGO boxes, replacing plastic pre-pack bags with new paper-based bags.
In its sustainability statement, the LEGO Group said that 56% of its global factory packaging lines have now converted to packing elements in paper-based bags.
LEGO Group CEO Niels B Christiansen said:
We are deeply committed to having a positive impact on the world and the communities we are part of. We do this by aiming to reduce our environmental footprint and improving access to play for kids who need it most, and we will continue to invest significantly to deliver on that ambition.
