This Is Plastics: Circular Blu

Rethinking Recycling

Every year, tons of blue wrap—used to keep medical tools sterile in clinical environments—is landfilled despite the fact that it’s a clean and useful fabric. Circular Blu is collecting this material before it reaches the landfill and converting it into reusable tote bags to create a circular economic solution for one prominent but overlooked plastic material.

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Hefty® EnergyBag®

Citrus Heights, CA

OceanBound Plastic Program

Chico, CA

State-of-the-art MRF

Orlando, FL

Hefty® EnergyBag®

Cobb County, GA

Hefty® EnergyBag®

Boise, ID

Chicago Healthcare Plastics Recycling

Chicago, IL

Bag-2-Bag® Recycling

North Vernon, IN

Indiana Recycling Expansion

Connersville, IN

Waste Polystyrene as Feedstock

St. James, LA

New Recycling Technologies on Display

Ipswich, MA

Home for Foam

Mason, MI

NEMO for End of Life Vehicles

Flint, MI

Hefty® EnergyBag®

Omaha, NE

Hefty® EnergyBag®

Lincoln, NE

Better Recycling (and Biodegradability) through Additives

Amherst, NH

Circular Blu

Bradford, NH

OceanBound Plastic Program

Greensboro, NC

NEMO for End of Life Vehicles

Waverly, OH

Revolutionizing Polypropylene (PP) Recycling

Ironton, OH

Pacific Northwest (PNW) Recycling Project

Portland, OR

Recycled PS Monomer

Tigard, OR

Regenyx

Tigard, OR

Geomembrane Recycling

Portland, PA

Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF)

Birdsboro, PA

NEMO for End of Life Vehicles

Portland, PA

Scoring a Goal, Closing the Loop

Philadelphia, PA

Carbon Renewal Technology

Kingsport, TN

Tennessee Recycling Expansion

Morristown, TN

Bag-2-Bag® Recycling

Roanoke, TX

Plastic Asphalt

Freeport, TX

Pathway 21

Seattle, WA

EcoStar

Madison, WI

  • Modernizing Infrastructure

    Updating waste management infrastructure to collect and recycle more plastics.

  • Advancing Recycling Innovation

    Inventing new ways to generate value from used plastic.

  • Developing End Markets

    Connecting the demand for recycled plastics to the supply.

Every year, tons of blue wrap—used to keep medical tools sterile in clinical environments—is landfilled despite the fact that it’s a clean and useful fabric. Circular Blu is collecting this material before it reaches the landfill and converting it into reusable tote bags to create a circular economic solution for one prominent but overlooked plastic material.

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Developing End Markets

Circular Blu

Bradford, NH

By Circular Blu

Every year, tons of blue wrap—used to keep medical tools sterile in clinical environments—is landfilled despite the fact that it’s a clean and useful fabric. Circular Blu is collecting this material before it reaches the landfill and converting it into reusable tote bags to create a circular economic solution for one prominent but overlooked plastic material.

Why it Matters

Beyond simply giving consumers access to some sustainable, durable and admittedly fetching tote bags, Circular Blu’s methodology for blue wrap is designed to create a circular economy infrastructure that can be applied to other materials as well. Finding a way to close the loop on different streams of plastic means waste stops being waste and starts to become a resource.

Take Action for Better Recycling

Plastic waste is a valuable resource, and we’re missing an opportunity to do more. You can be a part of a positive change. Join the grassroots movement and contact your elected official with the click of a button.

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