Remember when we talked about Lego recycling plastics? Well here's a breakdown of Mass Balance - the technique used to track the amount of sustainable materials in a product, to refresh your memory.
What is Mass Balance?
Mass Balance essentially allows companies and material-auditors to track the amount of sustainable materials a company purchases, through a given supply chain, and into their finished product. Because the finished product now has all of the material mixed together, you wouldn't be able to tell how much of it came from recycled material. This is where a mass balance certificatoin comes in to give us an understanding of how much recycled material could be allocated to a product.
But don't just take it from me, let's hear Lego explain it-
