Non-petroleum based plastics are a thing, but lag behind in many areas like strength, injection molding quality, UV resistance etc.
Recently Lego decided on moving to plant-based plastics, but they expect to need more than a decade of R&D by a team of 100 people, costing $150 million, before these materials are up to Lego's quality standards.
Recently Lego decided on moving to plant-based plastics, but they expect to need more than a decade of R&D by a team of 100 people, costing $150 million, before these materials are up to Lego's quality standards.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i26/Lego-Replace-Oil-Based-Pl...