OUR MISSION
Building Value from the World's Plastic Waste
Regenerating plastics to unlock new environmental, economic, and social value for all
who WE ARE
Introducing
CRDC GLOBAL
An Innovation of The Center for Regenerative Design & Collaboration (CRDC)
CRDC Global is a green building materials and machinery technology company founded by the Center of Regenerative Design & Collaboration (CRDC), an incubator of zero waste technologies that harness the commercial potential of regenerative design. Our patented industrial process unlocks the world's first comprehensive and economically viable circular economy for plastics by ensuring that 100% of collected plastic waste can be restored to use in valuable new products. Instead of going to waste in landfills, incinerators, and the environment, low-value plastics ineligible for traditional recycling become our raw materials for RESIN8™, an advanced hybrid mineral-polymer recycled content solution that enriches concrete and asphalt for the construction industries — and can be productively recycled into new concrete and asphalt aggregates at end of life.
Our passion for intelligent product design, manufacturing, and continuous innovation is inspired by the regenerative circular economy model we call REAP. An acronym for Recover—Enrich—Appreciate—Prosper, REAP guides us to eliminate waste through industrial symbiosis—transforming the waste of one industry into raw materials for another industry. REAP challenges us to continuously ensure that the social, environmental, and economic output of our business are greater than its inputs, producing a virtuous cycle of positive outcomes that grows over time, everywhere we work. In 2025 we have industrial manufacturing operations in Costa Rica, South Africa, the United States, and Australia. We aim to deliver the same regenerative solution in more locations soon. The concrete solution to plastic waste is at hand, for all of us.
RECOVER, ENRICH, APPRECIATE & PROSPER
REAP: Our Regenerative Circular Economy Model For Better Business
A People's Choice Finalist at the World Economic Forum Circularity Awards in 2016, our REAP process — Recover, Enrich, Appreciate, Prosper — guides everything we do at CRDC Global.
RECOVER, ENRICH, APPRECIATE & PROSPER
An innovation of the Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration (CRDC), REAP guides us to eliminate plastic waste using industrial symbiosis — transforming the waste of one industry into valuable raw materials for another industry.
Here's how it works at CRDC GLOBAL:
RECOVER
We build networks to recover discarded plastics before they go to waste, unlocking new sources of revenue from recycling, product innovation, carbon credits, and plastic credits.
APPRECIATE
We collaborate with innovators in the building & construction sector to improve the performance and carbon footprint of concrete and asphalt products, so they appreciate in value.
ENRICH
We enrich recovered plastics with patented technologies that create RESIN8™ recycled content, a growing line of low-carbon hybrid mineral-polymer materials for concrete & asphalt.
PROSPER
We pursue better economic, environmental, and social outcomes by teaching REAP in schools and building affordable, climate-resilient housing with partners like Habitat for Humanity.
RESIN8™ AROUND THE WORLD
Four plants, unlimited vision
We manufacture RESIN8™ in four commercial facilities globally.
More are on the way.
From its origin as a volunteer beach cleanup program in Costa Rica, CRDC GLOBAL was founded with the ambitious mission to create appreciating value from the world's plastic waste.
Today we manufacture RESIN8™ recycled content from hard-to-recycle plastic waste in Costa Rica, South Africa, Australia, and the United States, and we export our products globally.
Our 20 x 20 VISION for continuous global expansion calls for locating RESIN8™ manufacturing in 20 cities, each converting 20,000 tons of hard-to-recycle plastics per year.
Together with our partners, we're proudly building the concrete solution to plastic waste.
Ready to build with us? Contact your closest plant or the CRDC GLOBAL sales and partnerships team to inquire about export sales and JV partnerships in new markets.
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WHY we RESIN8™
Plastic waste
is a pervasive environmental issue
The alarming growth in plastic pollution threatens ecosystems, wildlife, and human health
The widespread and growing use of plastic products, combined with inadequate waste management systems, has led to a massive accumulation of plastic debris in our oceans, rivers, and landfills.
The primary driver of plastics pollution is a rate of global plastics production that has doubled since the beginning of the century, to nearly 400 million metric tons per year in 2021. But a critical contributor is the shortage of economically viable methods to recover, recycle, and repurpose post-use plastics at scale.
RESIN8™ is changing that.
THE PROBLEM OF PLASTIC WASTE
9.5%
of plastic waste
is recycled into
new plastic
90.5%
goes to waste in landfills, gets burned in incinerators, or litters the environment
380 million
TONS OF PLASTIC ARE GENERATED ANNUALLY. 50% of those are used once and thrown away
80%
of RESIN8™ is derived from plastic waste that is difficult or impossible to recycle
1 810 000 kg
of plastic waste has been converted into RESIN8™ recycled content since 2021
905 000 000
plastic equivalent of 1.8M kg measured in single-serving chip bags
800 kg
of hard-to-recycle waste goes into every TON of RESIN8™ recycled content
32 000
Plastic equivalent of 800 kg measured in 500ml PET bottles
400 000
plastic equivalent of 800 kg measured in single-serving chip bags
