Lego develops first bricks made from recycled plastic bottles

Activists welcome move but warn recycling should not be default solution to plastics crisis

Lego has unveiled its first bricks made from recycled plastic bottles and revealed that it hopes to include the pieces in sets within two years.

The Danish company, which takes its name from the Danish words for leg godt", meaning play well", makes billions of bricks a year, most of them from a plastic called ABS which gives them clutch power", helping them to grip together.