This Is Plastics: OceanBound Plastic Program

Rethinking Recycling

Envision’s OceanBound Plastic is made from recycled plastic collected from locations that lack solid waste management programs—plastic that would otherwise become marine debris. The company works with local organizations to collect high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottles and jugs before they enter the oceans. Since 2017 Envision has collected and recycled more than 5 million pounds of HDPE from the shores of places like Haiti and remote coastal regions of Mexico.

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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.

Envision’s OceanBound Plastic is made from recycled plastic collected from locations that lack solid waste management programs—plastic that would otherwise become marine debris. The company works with local organizations to collect high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottles and jugs before they enter the oceans. Since 2017 Envision has collected and recycled more than 5 million pounds of HDPE from the shores of places like Haiti and remote coastal regions of Mexico.

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Modernizing Infrastructure

OceanBound Plastic Program

Greensboro, NC

By Envision Plastics

Envision’s OceanBound Plastic is made from recycled plastic collected from locations that lack solid waste management programs—plastic that would otherwise become marine debris. The company works with local organizations to collect high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottles and jugs before they enter the oceans. Since 2017 Envision has collected and recycled more than 5 million pounds of HDPE from the shores of places like Haiti and remote coastal regions of Mexico.

Why it Matters

The simplicity of Envision’s plan—take plastic from where it absolutely shouldn’t be and give it value—has already found a number of supporters in the consumer goods world. OceanWorks, ReYuze phone cases, Juniper Networks, Island Creek Oyster Knives and ViTA are just some of the companies using OceanBound Plastic in their consumer products and packaging. If this becomes more widespread, more of the items you buy could come from plastic that otherwise would’ve simply been marine debris—and less of the plastic we use would end up where it shouldn’t.

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