'Lego tries to build a better brick' news article

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• Shib UKMember Posts: 5,356

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/6629/when-is-the-end-of-abs/p1
  

  

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• Diamondback_Six USAMember Posts: 127

  July 2015

  Um, there might be another downside... how will it impact brick longevity? Will I still have a reasonable expectation of being able to pass my own LEGO from when I was not far out of diapers on to my children and grandchildren, or are they going to be more like how Hasbro does things and "biodegrade" and fall apart after a few years?
  

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• DoubleD Oklahoma, USAMember Posts: 488

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  They will last forever mint in box. But as soon as the hit air they have a life of 4 years 7 months and 19 days. So no more air hole plastics bags for our minifigs to breath, hopefully they will be ok.

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• Diamondback_Six USAMember Posts: 127

  July 2015

  *stares* NOT funny... some of us like to keep our collections built for display. And I'd bet LEGO isn't about to invest in upgrading to hermetically sealed airtight boxes...
  
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• Thanos75 Member Posts: 1,120

  July 2015

  In a previous life I was a project manager for Alcoa/Renoylds packaging division. Fancy word for we extruded plastic. We were a test plant for whatever weird plastics they wanted to make. We had some government contracts and such. One of the more interesting plastics we extruded into sheets was a 100% decomposable plastic. It was made from sugars and starches and was meant for packaging for foods with a limited shelf life span...like berries and veggies and such. You could literally see that plastic start wilting after about a month. Very neat . We did test runs for several months then poof it was gone.

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