96% of production waste reused, recycled, or recovered in 2024, with less than 1% sent to landfill for three consecutive years.
Over 160 tons of waste eliminated through digital and process improvements in factories across Denmark, China, and Mexico.
Innovative circular systems adopted, including supplier partnerships to reuse packaging cores, reducing cardboard waste by 39 tons in Czechia.
The LEGO Group has achieved a major environmental milestone, maintaining zero waste to landfill across its global manufacturing sites for the third year in a row. The company reported that in 2024, 96% of waste generated during LEGO® brick production was reused, recycled, or recovered, with less than 1% sent to landfill—meeting widely accepted thresholds for zero-waste operations.
“As part of our goal called ‘Zero Impact in Operations’, we aim to decouple our environmental footprint from business growth,” the company stated.
This zero-to-landfill achievement is driven by LEGO’s broader waste strategy, which prioritizes waste prevention, reduction, reuse, and recycling. Notably, the group has reduced incineration without energy recovery each year since 2022.
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Process innovations have delivered measurable impact:
In Denmark, China, and Mexico, digital tools that recirculate raw materials and boost operational efficiency helped eliminate more than 160 tons of waste in 2024.
In Czechia, LEGO employees partnered with suppliers to close the loop on cardboard cores used in packaging, reducing waste by 39 tons by returning materials instead of recycling them.
Plastic waste from moulding operations, wood pallets, and cardboard remain LEGO’s largest waste categories—all of which are actively reused, recycled, or redirected to other industries, including automotive and electronics manufacturing.
“Across all LEGO factories, element waste is reused to make new LEGO bricks,” the company added. “Scraps that cannot be reused are recycled into other industries.”
LEGO emphasized that its sustainability progress is made possible by employee-driven innovation and supplier collaboration. “We rely on our employees’ creativity and innovative ideas, as well as close collaboration with trusted third-party suppliers to make this happen,” the statement concluded.
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