A Circular System to Turn Plastic Waste into Innovative New Products

Our relationship with plastic is a complex issue. Global rates of plastic waste recycling have increased in the past decades1, but just 9% of plastic is currently recycled2 and much of the rest ends up in landfill, or is dumped or burned. And because most plastic originates from fossil fuels, producing more of it contributes to the climate crisis.

But what if there was a way to reuse existing plastic and create a circular system for future plastic production – in the furniture in our homes, walls of our buildings, and sidewalks beneath our feet?

That’s the vision for revia, an innovative new circular building material developed by water and housing product maker LIXIL that reuses hard-to-recycle waste plastic.

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