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More than 30 years ago, we were the first to create all-weather furniture using recycled plastics. And our mission today remains the same. POLYWOOD is forever furniture, designed to be loved through countless seasons and proudly crafted in America with industry-leading sustainability practices.
POLYWOOD’s mission of stewardship is at the heart of everything we do. We’ve expanded our recycling process to incorporate local, regional, and globally-sourced post-consumer plastic into our on-site recycling center to stop plastics from ever reaching landfills and oceans. But our commitment to sustainability goes beyond recycling post-consumer plastics. Genuine POLYWOOD lumber is infinitely reusable, and any scrap from our production floor goes right back to our recycling plant to be reground, sent to extrusion, and made back into lumber. Our zero-waste mindset also means that the post-industrial scrap, or materials used in our production—including glass, packaging, paper, aluminum, shrink wrap, fasteners, fabric, resin, and pallets—are recycled, reducing our environmental impact.
First, large bales of landfill- and ocean-bound plastics arrive at our recycling plant, flattened and bundled.
Along with any scrap lumber from our production process that's ready to be reused, everything is sent up a conveyor to a giant shredder to be pre-shredded.
Next, the shredded flakes are pre-washed and any heavy materials that might have gotten mixed in (glass, rocks, etc.) are removed.
Our color sorter then removes any pigmented plastics we don't want in the final product. Once sorted, the resulting material travels up another conveyor to be pelletized.
The final product is loads of clear pellets that are ready to be made into genuine POLYWOOD lumber.
The recycled pellets are transported next door to the Extrusion Department by an efficiently designed series of tubes from one building to the next. All pellets are stored in silos outside the building and then sucked in through more tubes that run right to our extrusion lines.
Tubing that runs from the Recycling Building over to the silos outside of the Extrusion Department.
Our silos that store recycled plastic pellets waiting to become POLYWOOD lumber.
We take our recycled pellets, add colorant, along with other additives (to ensure beautiful, long-lasting color), and then extrude the mixture to the size and shape of the lumber we need (similar to when you “extruded” Play-Doh as a kid).
On the last leg of its journey, our recycled lumber makes its way to our production cells where builders construct POLYWOOD furniture.
After our furniture is constructed, 99% of all scrap from manufacturing goes right back to our recycling plant to be reground, sent to extrusion, and made back into lumber. We’ve also introduced custom cardboard box machines that make all our cardboard shipping boxes to the exact size needed to reduce cardboard waste.
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