2024 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
INTRODUCTION
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Made From Recycled and Reclaimed Raw Materials
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Expanding Partnerships: We actively seek new partners and sources of waste PE film and reclaimed wood.
4. Recycling End-of-Life Products: We are exploring ways to recycle old Trex products back into production. While our processes are ready to accept this material, the main challenge is the logistics and cost of recovering end-of-life waste. In 2024, we expanded on earlier initiatives by partnering with a Texas-based distributor to consolidate and return scraps to our Virginia facility. Additionally, a pilot program in Illinois launching in 2025 will make it easier for homeowners and contractors to return cut offs and construction waste for recycling. We are also collaborating with our merchandising and distribution partners to recover waste film from their operations.
supply chain and strengthening relationships with our raw material partners. As our business grows, we are constantly innovating to increase the supply of recycled and reclaimed raw materials. By diversifying our sourcing of waste plastic film and reclaimed wood and improving efficiency in our manufacturing processes, we are ensuring that Trex continues to lead in circular practices. In addition, the commissioning of our Little Rock, Arkansas site will expand our PE processing capacity to meet foreseeable future demand. We follow a four-pillar strategy to maximize the circularity of our decking products and ensure that approximately 95% of our materials come from recycled and reclaimed sources:
2. Investing in R&D: We invest in research and development to test and recover additional streams of waste PE film that others have not yet tapped into for recycling. 3. Boosting Internal Circularity: We recycle nearly all production scraps back into our products. This includes line startups, scraps, cutoffs, rejects, field returns, and even used Trex boards. In 2025, we conducted a waste audit to identify more opportunities for in-house and external recycling.
In 2024, Trex sourced an impressive, 1,050 million pounds of waste PE film and reclaimed wood to make our decking products—an increase from 844 million pounds in 2023. While our demand for raw materials can vary due to seasonal and market factors, rapid scaling up or down of our sourcing is not practical. The organizations we partner with to collect waste PE film and reclaimed wood depend on Trex to pick up materials from their facilities regularly. That is why we have invested in warehouse capacity, building resilience into our LOGO USAGE
Post-retail sources such as plastic bags or wrap generated in back-of- house operations
Post-commercial sources from manufacturing or distribution centers such as waste plastic film from pallet wrap
Our propreietary manufacturing process is optimized to re-use factory waste and minimize emissions.
Post-consumer sources, plastic bags, wrap and other packaging collected by communities and schools or deposited in recycling bins in retail stores
Plastic film cleaned and ground into granules
Trex decking is made from 95% recycled PE plastic and reclaimed wood
Reclaimed wood from multiple sources
Sawdust made from ground wood
Quality inspection of finished boards that have been cooled and cut into length
Finished boards packaged and sent to customers
Plastic film and sawdust combined and heated
Mixture die-formed into boards
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