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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.
The new effort is the company's latest step toward a sustainability-focused future. Mattel previously committed to using 100% recycled, recyclable or bio-based plastic materials across all of its products and packaging by 2030.
Good news for 90s kids who have laundry baskets filled with Barbies in their parents' basements: Mattel wants to recycle your old toys.
Why wouldn't the parents throw that stuff out, after nearly 30 years? Or as soon as the kids grow up and move out? Who keeps baskets or drawers-full of their kids' toys forever? Very few people, AFAIK.
I had saved a lot of my kids toys, especially Star Wars stuff for years. I had thought they might like to pass them down to their own children. Unfortunately, after carting them around for years with various moves, they were lost in a flood, along with a whole collection of children's books and memorabilia of their childhood.
Whether or not I'd turn them in for recycling if they weren't destroyed is doubtful. The postage cost would have been pretty high considering the size of the Ewok Village, Millenium Falcon, and other assorted items.
My almost 2 year old grandson is here visiting (had t seen him in 16 months) and he’s playing with Fisher Price, Little Tykes and other brands of toys his 33 year old mommy played with at his age. We didn’t keep everything, but stuff that was in good shape and a classic kids toy has been chilling in my attic for decades in anticipation of this very moment!!
I had saved a lot of my kids toys, especially Star Wars stuff for years. I had thought they might like to pass them down to their own children. Unfortunately, after carting them around for years with various moves, they were lost in a flood, along with a whole collection of children's books and memorabilia of their childhood.
Whether or not I'd turn them in for recycling if they weren't destroyed is doubtful. The postage cost would have been pretty high considering the size of the Ewok Village, Millenium Falcon, and other assorted items.
Mattel is providing a mailing label, so no cost for the shipping.
All my son's old toys went to the thrift store. Already recycled. Who keeps all that crap??
I didn't keep everything, but I kept the stuff the boys loved the most. Still have it all as a matter of fact. Our one and only grandchild was thrilled with the Lego sets. Our other sons aren't quite ready to become parents yet, but when they are there are still lots of toys to pass on.
I was never into Barbie, but I LOVED the little (or liddle ) dolls that Mattel put out in the late '60s called Liddle Kiddles. I even started a thread here on C-D about them: https://www.city-data.com/forum/coll...-70s-pics.html .
Mattel is not getting those back! Seriously, I have no idea why those tiny little dolls have such an emotional hold on me, but they do, and it doesn't hurt anyone so I will likely keep them until I die. They remind me of some very sweet moments in what was, overall, a very chaotic, insecure, unstable childhood.
My daughter grew up in the age of Barbie's rock band, "Barbie and the Rockers, complete with van, stage, instruments. Plus Barbie's Dream Home, which I stayed up till around 2 AM Christmas day putting all Barbie's "dreams" together. A few years after her mother and I divorced, ex had a yard sale. Sold the Dream Home, with ALL accessories, for $5. All the Barbie and the Rockers stuff, also sold together, went for $3. If she had held on to that stuff, she would have gotten a lot more than $8 out of it all.
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