This French company has come up with a way to transform plastic waste into recyclable panels suitable for use in architecture and interior design. 

French industry discards a huge percentage of its production output. Maximum uses those valuable rejects to make standardised furniture, such as chairs, tables and benches. 

Why recycle when you can just reuse?

The Knauf Group's Knauf Circular® programme collects clean used expanded polystyrene and recycles it into new insulation and packaging materials. 

French company AFYREN manufactures molecules which can replace petroleum-based ones – from agricultural by-products. 

Used in a range of applications from feed to fragrances, its organic acids reduce reliance on fossil fuels and resource use. 

Estonian company Neular has developed a method for converting hard-to-recycle plastic waste streams into sturdy construction and infrastructure components such as fences and decking.

Recycled and recyclable, they keep resources in play – and you won't need to spend every summer varnishing them! 

EstPak Plastik AS manufactures plastic packaging, including food packaging made from recycled PET. 

This reduces the environmental impact of plastics by replacing virgin raw materials with recycled materials and keeping plastics in circulation through high-quality recycling of resources.

Faerch is a global food packaging company that develops recyclable, high-performance food packaging solutions and closed-loop systems for used food packaging materials. 

It keeps PET in use, reducing reliance on virgin plastics and reducing waste.

Czech company Replast Produkt manufactures flooring panels, speed bumps, temporary sign bases and cable protection systems from 100% recycled PVC cable. 

EcoX collects and processes used cooking oil into household detergents. It's sold in plastic bottles which can be returned to be refilled up to seven times.

Studio Wae makes hard and soft floor coverings from materials recovered through urban mining and agreements with producers.