Mattel wants you to send back your toys when you're done with them

Robert59

Robert59

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Good news for 90s kids who have laundry baskets filled with Barbies in their parents' basements: Mattel wants to recycle your old toys.
The 76-year-old toy company is launching a pilot program called "Mattel PlayBack" that is designed to recover and reuse materials in old toys for future Mattel products.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/mattel-toys-sustainability/index.html
 

Look deeper at the true state of recycling .... a good percentage of items are not recycled they would have to spend a fortune to disassemble old toys and clean the plastics etc to reuse any piece.
IMO these along with many other items lately are PR moves to appeal to the current trend.

many of items in the recycle system are thrown out later in the process but the average consumer does not know that.
 
Jeni said:
Look deeper at the true state of recycling .... a good percentage of items are not recycled they would have to spend a fortune to disassemble old toys and clean the plastics etc to reuse any piece.
IMO these along with many other items lately are PR moves to appeal to the current trend.

many of items in the recycle system are thrown out later in the process but the average consumer does not know that.
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Bulls-eye!

You said it better than I ever could, Jeni.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Most of the old toys my kids had were in good shape and I donated them to the Salvation Army and Good Will. I would rather do that then send them back to Mattel.
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My sentiment to a T, Ruth.

When I was young and growing, secondhand things (clothing, books, toys, you name it) was the order of the day, when family (immediate and extended) started having children, same thing, and when I raised my children, same thing again.

We all traded this for that, handed-down bags of this and bags of that, books and toys were swapped/gifted, and so it seems for years and years all the kids in our family had everything they ever dreamed of, with so much stuff passed down from kid to kid.
 
I just got back from a trip to Goodwill, to donate several bags of miscellaneous stuff. The lady in front of me unloaded a whole bunch of nice-looking toys, apparently from a little boy, lots of little trucks. I don't know why anyone would bother sending toys to Mattel.
 

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