Answers.Body: <p>They're working on it! Should be ready in 15 years.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/no-more-plastic-legos-company-searches-sustainable-material-n379976" rel="noreferrer">http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/no-more-plastic-legos-company-searches-sustainable-material-n379976</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Oil won't run out in 46 years' time, it will just need more energy to extract it than it can be got from it. Lego can still afford the small amount required for each brick even then.
  Guess perfected re-cycling by then, all plastic returned to maker to make the same things again, which means Lego won't get much.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Hmmm... would have to be something relatively light, slightly flexible but also mostly rigid, preferably waterproof/buoyant, easy to mold, and cheap... perhaps some future form of carbon fiber? Or perhaps some organic material that comes from animals, and so is infinitely sustainable... </p>
  
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Body: <p>When crude is no longer available (which is in 53.3 years) what will LEGO do, since oil is needed in order to make plastic? Is there a plastic alternative, or another type of material that is strong and durable like ABS plastic?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Somehow I think that what Lego bricks will be made out of will be low on the list of concerns. Of greater concern: how will The Lego Group ship anything anywhere? How will food be transported anywhere? How will humans move about on the earth without gasoline-powered cars, trucks, airplanes, ships? Will the global economy crash? What will we eat? Etc...
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Title: What will LEGO do when all the crude oil on earth is used?
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ThreadText: # What will LEGO do when all the crude oil on earth is used?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-03)
  
  When crude is no longer available (which is in 53.3 years) what will LEGO do, since oil is needed in order to make plastic? Is there a plastic alternative, or another type of material that is strong and durable like ABS plastic?
  
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  > **username_1**: Somehow I think that what Lego bricks will be made out of will be low on the list of concerns. Of greater concern: how will The Lego Group ship anything anywhere? How will food be transported anywhere? How will humans move about on the earth without gasoline-powered cars, trucks, airplanes, ships? Will the global economy crash? What will we eat? Etc...  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-07-03. Score: 6
  
  They're working on it! Should be ready in 15 years.
  
  <http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/no-more-plastic-legos-company-searches-sustainable-material-n379976>
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2022-10-25. Score: 0
  
  Oil won't run out in 46 years' time, it will just need more energy to extract it than it can be got from it. Lego can still afford the small amount required for each brick even then.
  Guess perfected re-cycling by then, all plastic returned to maker to make the same things again, which means Lego won't get much.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-07-17. Score: 0
  
  Hmmm... would have to be something relatively light, slightly flexible but also mostly rigid, preferably waterproof/buoyant, easy to mold, and cheap... perhaps some future form of carbon fiber? Or perhaps some organic material that comes from animals, and so is infinitely sustainable...
  
  
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