On the off chance that you're a parent, at that point you'll realize how precarious it very well may be to abstain from getting them, regardless of whether it's diggers, dolls houses or building blocks.
The UK's toy industry is gigantic - a year ago buyers burned through £370m on them.
Be that as it may, naturalists state this is adding to the measure of plastic winding up in landfill and seas.
A survey by the British Heart Foundation found that in excess of a fourth of guardians confess to discarding toys that are in immaculate working request.
It addressed in excess of 2,000 individuals and discovered kids have a normal of four toys they've never played with.
'My little girl cherishes plastic toys'
Lauren Tedaldi says her three-year-old little girl Mirella gets given heaps of toys from loved ones.
"Regardless of whether it's Easter, Christmas or birthday celebrations it generally is by all accounts a reason to purchase new toys."
"Attempt as we may to purchase wooden toys, or things that are more solid, or that are better for nature, my daughter cherishes plastic toys.
"Like most children, the more splendid and the crazier - the better.
"We endeavor to spare the huge toys for extraordinary events, yet it's hard and it's anything but difficult to finish up with parts and heaps of toys."
Lauren says she does attempt and take a pack of old toys to philanthropy shops normally and has a "one-in, one-out strategy" with regards to toys in the house.
"I realize philanthropy shops can reuse what they can't sell.
"I could never simply discard toys regardless of whether I was addressing in the event that they were in great scratch."
Can toys ever be ecologically cordial?
While we don't know precisely the amount of the plastic that winds up in landfill originates from toys, green campaigners state that purchasers can help lessen the sum available for use.
Companions of the Earth says there are approaches to reduce purchasing plastic toys - things like toy libraries, passing toys on, purchasing less, obtaining off companions and sharing more.
Greenpeace UK told the BBC it doesn't consider plastic toys 'single-utilize plastics' as they can be utilized consistently.
"Toys are a long way from single use plastics, as we probably am aware from research that they remain inside a family for around 10 years and watch out for then be passed on to philanthropies, loved ones," Natasha Crookes from the British Toy and Hobby Association says.
The association claims many toys will last between 15-20 years before they enter the waste stream.
Making toys out of reused plastic probably won't be the appropriate response either.
"Reused plastics are once in a while ready to be utilized during the time spent assembling toys because of the vulnerability of the synthetic organization of reused plastic," Natasha says.
"It could contain one of the a huge number of synthetic substances confined under toy wellbeing enactment."
'It's tied in with purchasing great quality toys'
Keeping away from plastic inside and out and purchasing toys out of practical materials could be the appropriate response.
There are heaps of new eco-style marks that offer toys produced using feasible wood and reused materials.
Be that as it may, they can be costly.
Mum-of-two Rachel Lochhead says she attempts to avoid plastic toys on the off chance that she can support it and just purchases "great quality" toy marks new so she realizes they will keep going quite a while.
Rachel says she buys some plastic toys however just second hand ones - fundamentally from Ebay or Gumtree and philanthropy shops.
"Plastic is a commonsense material and shabby to produce so unavoidably loads of things are produced using it."
'Purchasing second hand spares me heaps of cash'
Bettina Maidment attempts to carry on with a without plastic life.
With regards to toys however, she says despite everything she purchases plastic, yet just second-hand.
"For the last two Christmases I've completed a second-hand Christmas - I spare a considerable amount of cash that way.
"My child got a bicycle for his birthday which we couldn't bear the cost of spic and span, yet second-hand it resembled new and he adores it."
It's not simply online sale locales that have developed in prominence with regards to exchanging toys, guardians regularly post advertisements via web-based networking media bunches presenting toys for nothing or a little cost.
How protected is it to purchase second-hand toys?
There have been a few worries about the wellbeing dangers of purchasing second-hand toys.
A year ago an examination discovered some toys tried didn't get the most together to-date security rules.
Imprint Gardiner, of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, stated: "Any products that are purchased second-hand are not going to have a similar security affirmations.
"Guardians ought to weigh up these dangers, particularly when giving their youngsters toys that are exceptionally old and could have likewise precisely crumbled after some time."
What are the toy organizations doing about plastic?
While purchasers are finding a way to reuse or reuse toys, green campaigners state it's up to makers and retailers to act.
Some toy organizations are finding a way to turned out to be increasingly reasonable.
Lego's leaves, shrubberies and trees are presently really green - they're made with plastic sourced from sugarcane.
It's a piece of the Danish organization's vow to utilize economical materials in its items and bundling by 2030.
Toy organization MGA Entertainment, which is behind L.O.L Surprise!, is attempting to curtail the waste delivered from bundling its dolls.
Customers are welcome to take care of the waste, solicitation and print a name from the site, before sending it off to TerraCycle for reusing.
How simple is it to reuse plastic toys?
As opposed to hurling out an old plastic train set if it's harmed, it merits checking with your neighborhood reusing focus in the event that they'll take it.
Plastic toys and diversions can't be gathered as a feature of your family reusing plan, as indicated by the Recycle Now battle gathering.
"In the event that your toys and recreations are unrecoverable, it might in any case be conceivable to reuse a portion of the parts on the off chance that you disassemble them - and this incorporates batteries and battery packs from remote controls which ought to be expelled and reused."
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