Save the Planet. Play with Lego.

Hey everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is Right Angol, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com, and I'm exaggerating a little bit in the headline there.

But gentlemen, a story came across my desk yesterday that I thought was just fascinating.

Lego, and I didn't even know they were doing this, even though I spent my childhood playing with them and my adulthood buying them for my kids.

And, well, that's a Lego ripoff battleship over my shoulder there.

But they had planned to try and change their manufacturing technology to make their bricks out of recycled bottles.

And I couldn't believe it.

That Lego would actually do this.

But as I said, they've dropped the plans.

The Financial Times called it a sustainability setback because those people are idiots.

But according to CNN, the Danish toy maker had spent years testing recycled a polyethylene

terra-thylate P-E-T as a more climate-friendly alternative to the, I'm not even going to try and

pronounce this one, the ABS that they've used for decades to make their bricks. These very high-quality bricks.

A company spokesman told CNN on Monday that we have decided not to progress making bricks

from recycled PET after more than three years of testing as we found the material.

Get this.

Didn't reduce carbon emissions.

And one of the reasons for that is all of the retooling required to change their production line.

They basically have to make Legos to infinity and forever and beyond to get any actual carbon reduction out of this.

Bill, is this the first common sense environmentalism story you've run across and maybe ever?

Well, first of all, I think every rational person can agree that the number one threat to the survival of life on the planet is the

overabundance of Lego bricks. That is the challenge. That's the challenge of our age and we have to do

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