Trex Company Named 2019 Eco-Leader by Green Builder Media - Seite 2

“The entrepreneurial spirit of our founders lives on in our dedicated employees who continually look for opportunities to reuse or recycle items to reduce our environmental footprint,” said Cline. “For example, we use vegetable oil instead of petroleum-based fluids in some of our hydraulic systems and we use closed loop systems to lower our water consumption.”

Education and Outreach

Historically at the forefront of the green building industry, Trex is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council, which is dedicated to improving the way America’s buildings and communities are designed, constructed and operated. The company also sponsors and participates in a variety of national recycling programs working with such organizations as the American Chemistry Council’s Flexible Film Recycling Group, the Society of the Plastics Industry, the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.

Through the company’s own NexTrex Recycling Program, Trex works with approximately 32,000 stores nationwide to responsibly dispose of plastic shopping bags and polyethylene film used to wrap products and pallets and repurpose that material as Trex composite decking. Recently the program reached a monumental milestone of one billion pounds of recycled material collected through participating retailers.

In addition to these initiatives, Trex also supports a multitude of recycling solutions at the local level, and continues to expand its support of green initiatives in communities across the country. Over the past 12 years, the company’s annual Trex Plastic Film Recycling Challenge has educated and involved thousands of students across the country in recycling. Students from more than 500 schools participated in the most recent challenge and, together, kept more than 500 thousand pounds of plastic waste from ending up in landfills.

Transparency and Trust

In early 2019, Trex reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability, social responsibility and transparency when it released its inaugural Sustainability Report. The report provided the public with a comprehensive review of Trex’s economic, environmental and social performance data from the prior year, as well as over the company’s history.

“As consumers and investors increasingly show preference for eco-friendly building materials, manufacturers have responded with ‘green’ claims that are often difficult to discern or verify,” noted Cline. “The Trex Sustainability Report reaffirms our commitment to offering the highest quality decking and railings available on the market with the assurance that our products are environmentally sound.”