Of Crawlers and Plastic
If you would like to see a crawler, there is in fact a current LEGO Ideas project that you could support (not mine) https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ffbe8819-6300-4f61-92c9-3778feaa57de
On the plastic front, LEGO is I believe experimenting with organic and therefore degradeable bricks and is also looking at replacing its plastic brick bags. My own projects on Ideas are more science fiction than science fact I'm afraid, but search up Gerry Anderson and you'll get the Idea(s)!