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- Issue 04 | 2021
LEGO bricks made from recycled PET bottles
The LEGO Group (Billund, Denmark) recently unveiled a prototype LEGO® brick made from recycled plastic, the latest step in its journey to make Lego products from sustainable materials. - Issue 04 | 2021
Sustainable toys from Sweden
Viking Toys is a small family-owned and family run toy business based in Torsås, Sweden. Starting in 1974 and selling toys in over 40 countries the core of the company has always been: family, play ... - Issue 04 | 2021
Commitment to sustainable toys
Artsana (Italy), the Group to which Chicco brand belongs, has a clear purpose: working for a world in which giving birth and raising children are both desirable and sustainable for everyone. That is ... - Issue 04 | 2021
Sustainable fleece and faux fur
Miyama’s PLA staple fibre for more eco-friendly fabrics - Issue 04 | 2021
Sustainability in the toy industry
Sustainability is a big challenge in the toy industry. Since the launch of the very first plastic product to the market, the relationship between plastics and humans has been complex, yet until now ... - Issue 04 | 2021
Game changer
When do things start to change? Sounds like an easy-to-answer question but hold on for a minute and think. If you could answer quickly and correctly, you’d be a billionaire, at least a ... - Issue 03 | 2019
Cooler than wood. Better than plastic.
How an inconspicuous building brick from Austria has set out to conquer the world. - Issue 03 | 2019
Bioplastic items for kids… a real bet
Speaking at the inaugural bio!TOY Conference was a major event for eKoala, said Beatrice Radaelli, co-founder of the company. bioplastics MAGAZINE talked to her about what it took to start a ... - Issue 03 | 2019
Danish bio-toys a success story
Products made from sugarcane are a natural development for the Danish toy manufacturer dantoy - Issue 03 | 2019
Baby toys – safe and sustainable
Simple, down to earth designs made from the safest of biomaterials may be the classic playthings of tomorrow - Issue 03 | 2019
Relaunch of ocean-safe beach toys
About 350 million tonnes of plastic is produced globally every year with approximately 25 % of it used in packaging, most of which is designed for single use. (The average North American throws away ... - Issue 02 | 2018
Could a Koala soothe a teething Baby?
Sure, if the Koala is a special BIOplastic one! - Issue 02 | 2018
A box full of creativity
PlayMais® is a creative craft activity for children based on corn starch (maize) that – bucking the international trend in toy manufacturing - proudly bears the label Made in Germany. A claim few ... - Issue 02 | 2018
First biobased LEGO-elements to come this year
Roughly sixty years after patenting their legendary tube and burl system, LEGO® starts with their first biobased elements this year. Lego botanical elements such as leaves, bushes and trees will be ... - Issue 02 | 2018
Toy bricks from bio-PE
BiOBUDDi™ presents first compatible toy bricks and unique new products - Issue 02 | 2018
New generation of toy bricks
After one year of development, the Dutch company LUCO TOYS (De Meern, Utrecht, The Netherlands) presents a new generation of its toy bricks: interlocking building blocks made from the wood plastic ... - Issue 02 | 2018
Eco truck from WPC
One of the most exciting trends in the United States right now is the Maker Movement. Simply put, the idea is to use traditional processes combined with new technology to create products locally, ... - Issue 02 | 2018
Biobased plastics capture the toy industry
Biobased plastics are conquering the toy market. Already today, a large number of applications inspire their very young audience with fresh colours, pleasantly soft surfaces without sharp corners and ... - Issue 04 | 2016
Innovation award for Bioblo
Bioblo a young startup – company fromTulln, Lower Austria, recently received the International Green Product Award. The product: Bioblo, a novel play and construction brick made from 100 % renewable ... - Issue 04 | 2016
Cracking the code of durable bioplastics for the toy market
Over the past 50 years, thermoplastics have largely replaced metal and wood as the preferred materials used for toy manufacturing. Amongst all commodity thermoplastics, ABS is one of the most ... - Issue 04 | 2016
LEGO looks for sustainable alternatives
In 1958, in Billund Denmark, Godtfred Kirk Kristiansen invented a simple system for clicking together small bricks, enabling decades of imaginative play for young and old in more than 140 countries. ... - Issue 04 | 2016
Toys are not child’s play
And there is no better way to experience this first hand than with visiting a toy fair and being overwhelmed by the abundance of ideas, innovations and markets presented there. - Issue 04 | 2016
Toys for a better future
From its early beginnings at the end of 2009, Bioserie was created with a vision: to bring customers high quality, well designed durable consumer goods allowing them to enjoy the benefits of advanced ... - Issue 04 | 2016
PHA resins for toys
Within just a few years it will be possible to give all children eco-sustainable, biodegradable safe toys free from toxic substances. In the future this will be normal but in order to make this ... - Issue 04 | 2016
Bio-alternatives for soft PVC (plasticized vinyl chloride polymers)
Vinyl chloride polymer (PVC) has grown to be one of the major plastics of the world and is the third most important polymer with regard to its production volume. For soft PVC (PVC-p) plasticizers ... - Issue 04 | 2016
Toymakers are the vanguard of material innovation
There may be no other product market with more consumer choices than toys, hundreds of model trains, trucks and cars, are bidding for consumer attention. So, perhaps it’s not surprising that ... - Issue 05 | 2014
A waste-to-toys effort
Luke’s Toy Factory makes safe, sustainable toys from local sources