2024 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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How We Source Waste Plastic
Amount of Recycled PE Sourced (million pounds)
network—spanning post-commercial, post-retail, and post- consumer sources—we sourced more than 377 million pounds of PE in 2024.
SOURCES OF RECYCLED PLASTIC FILM Post-retail sources include stores that generate waste plastic bags or wrap in back-of-house operations before items reach the sales floor. Post-commercial sources include manufacturing hubs and/or distribution centers that frequently generate waste plastic film from pallet wrap. Post-consumer sources include used plastic bags, wrap, bubble mailers, dry cleaning bags, and other packaging that consumers deposit in our recycling bins in retail stores.
When Trex first began recycling plastic film, there were not many ways to reuse this material, and most of it ended up in landfills. Today, however, industries are stepping up to address the challenges of single-use plastics by incorporating recycled PE into their products and packaging—opening up new possibilities for reusing waste plastic film. Our NexTrex® recycling program partners with businesses that produce large amounts of plastic film waste, like stretch film, shrink wrap, pallet wrap, and plastic bags, 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 2024, the NexTrex® network had grown to include over 10,000 retail stores across the country. Through this extensive
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Novel Sources of PE Film
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As new recycling opportunities for PE continue to emerge, Trex remains committed to its founding principles by exploring new, largely untapped sources of waste PE. For example, we utilize end-of-life PE packaging materials which are often used by the food and chemical industry. We have focused our efforts on testing recycled trimmings generated during the production of certain personal use products. We have also invested in specialized equipment to allow us to process recycled material in various forms.
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