2025 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
INTRODUCTION
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How We Source Waste Plastic
Annual Amount of PE Sourced (2023–2025 three-year rolling average)
sources—enables us to source the recycled PE required for our manufacturing production. The amount of PE we can source is influenced by multiple factors, including retail support, bag ban legislation, environmental activism and PE packaging optimization efforts, among others. Learn more about NexTrex® on page 22 .
When Trex first began recycling plastic film, there were few ways to reuse this material, and most of it ended up in landfills. Today, multiple industries are tackling the challenges of single- use plastics by incorporating recycled PE into their products and packaging—opening new possibilities for reusing waste PE films. Through our NexTrex® recycling program, we partner with businesses that produce large amounts of waste plastic film— such as shrink wrap, pallet wrap, plastic bags and stretch film—to collect and recycle PE. Many of our commercial partners, including grocery stores and retailers, also serve as convenient drop-off locations for post-consumer PE. LOGO USAGE By 2025, the NexTrex® network had grown to include over 15,300 retail stores across the country. This extensive network— spanning post-commercial, post-retail and post-consumer
Novel Sources of PE Film
379 million pounds 1
As new recycling opportunities for PE continue to emerge, Trex continually explores new sources of waste PE. For example, we incorporate end-of-life PE packaging materials that are often used by the food and chemical industry. We also invest in specialized equipment that enables us to process recycled material in various forms.
1 Values represent a three-year rolling average to account for the impact of short-term market variability.
SOURCES OF RECYCLED PLASTIC FILM Post-retail: Includes stores that generate waste plastic bags or wrap in back-of-house operations before items reach the sales floor. Post-commercial: Includes manufacturing hubs and/or distribution centers that frequently generate waste plastic film from pallet wrap. Post-consumer: Includes used plastic bags, wrap, bubble mailers, dry cleaning bags and other packaging that consumers deposit in our recycling bins in retail stores. Post-industrial: Includes plastic film scrap and off- specification material generated during the manufacture and conversion of plastic film packaging, as well as excess packaging products from operations.
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