17 sustainable materials from recycled plastic that can be used for furniture.
A circular material that pelletizes post-consumer plastic waste for large-format FGF printing.
Instead of cutting sheet stock, waste-plastic pellets can be 3D-printed at large scale to produce custom part…
A building block compression-molded from hard-to-recycle mixed plastics.
Hard-to-recycle plastics that were headed for landfill or incineration are compressed into blocks.
An upholstery fabric woven entirely from post-consumer recycled PET, half of it SEAQUAL yarn recovered from marine plastic.
A fabric that talks in figures, not ocean-plastic narrative — composition, abrasion and certifications are al…
Korean-made PVC fabric produced by recycling composite PVC waste.
A Korean closed-loop material case: industrial composite PVC waste is recycled into flakes, powder and pellet…
Recycled plastic solid surface
It can be fabricated into countertops and washbasins like an ordinary solid surface while showing the recycle…
PA6 feedstock and yarn chemically regenerated from nylon waste such as fishing nets and carpets.
Rather than a finished product, it returns nylon waste to PA6 at the feedstock stage, so it can be connected…
ecothylene® — a material recycled from old plastic toys, made into furniture and lighting. "The ecoBirdy technology turns old plastic toys into design furniture which is entirely recyclable." Known for its unmixed speckled surface. SGS, CE and VOC certifications shown; the company is a B Corp. Designed in Antwerp, Belgium; made in Italy. Charlie chair, Luisa table, Rhino lamp and more.
Revives an emotionally loaded waste stream — toys — as design furniture. A rare recycled plastic you can prop…
A press-moulding waste composite from Mater, Copenhagen. Coffee bean shells (roasting by-product), sawdust, post-consumer e-waste and post-industrial fibres mixed with a binder — nine blends (five with plastic-waste binder, four with sugarcane-derived biodegradable plastic). Formed by standard furniture-industry press moulding; all Matek furniture can be returned to Mater and recycled into new furniture. Designed for disassembly and repair.
A furniture-axis case where waste composite is mass-produced as shells and seats. Clear coffee-and-e-waste na…
A family of ABS resins that recycle plastic recovered from sources such as waste appliances and electronics.
A recycled ABS based on post-consumer recovered feedstock, made by a Korean manufacturer. Recycled content va…
The pattern of the color boards is not made with added pigment; it forms as printing ink left on the Tyvek sp…
A translucent, hand-made solid surface made from 100% recycled polycarbonate.
It turns waste polycarbonate into translucent sheets with a wax- or onyx-like depth, suited to backlighting a…
100% recycled polystyrene surface material for large-scale projects.
With large-format panels and more than 50 patterns, it is well suited to showing waste plastic directly as a…
A polyester yarn recycled from waste PET bottles.
A recycled polyester yarn made from waste PET bottles. Grades and certifications vary by product.
A traceable polyester yarn, fiber and resin made by recycling waste PET bottles.
A commercially available recycled PET feedstock that extends beyond fabric to nonwoven, sheeting, film and re…
Recycled PET decorative panel
A panel that shows the labels and colored fragments of waste plastic as a surface pattern, so the origin of t…
A 12 mm decorative, sound-absorbing panel made with waste PET bottles.
A thin panel that is easy to color and cut, making it easy to match wall graphics, sound absorption and furni…
Recycled nylon-6 recovered from discarded fishing nets by a Busan social venture. The whole chain from marine-waste collection to raw-material production is verified under UL ECV 2809 OP (Ocean Plastic, 2023-04); supplied to Kolon Plastics, LG Chem and Samyang.
One of the few cases where fishing nets from Korean coasts become recycled feedstock in a Korean plant, with…