[dijit]

why? isn’t it better to keep re-using the brick rather than having something that degrades and can’t be passed along due to shoddy quality?

[CalRobert]

How much lego gets passed down vs vacuumed up or lost?

(Honest question)

[dijit]

Out of every hundred pieces, maybe 4 get lost or go into the vacuum.

One need only go to charity shops in the UK to see the absolutely astonishing amounts of lego that managed to leave a family.

The “bucket” of lego bricks is a staple in many families with children, with parts coming from other peoples buckets or collations of multiple buckets.

All my lego is with my nephew, but before that it was stored with all my other toys, most of which were discarded as they were deemed unfit to continue: not the lego though.

It’s hard to get actual data on this, but in my sets I only lost about 4-5% of pieces, which is still many, and I only broke 2 or 3 pieces in my childhood.

And I was careless and rowdy, so I’m pretty much worst-case.

[dghlsakjg]

Lego very rarely gets wasted. The second hand market is massive even for random mixed bricks.

Prices start around $15/lb and go up from there.

[littlestymaar]

I doubt the ratio is below 95% in favor of reuse. You can find second hand Lego everywhere and are kinda expensive even in bulk.

[BadHumans]

Everything heads for the landfill eventually