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Where we share news about RESIN8™ product innovation, CRDC Global's expanding global footprint, and our growing roster of collaborations driving positive impacts for plastic waste, construction, and climate-resilient social housing.

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NEW & NOTEWORTHY FROM CRDC

Costa Rica

Large New River Boom Installed in Costa Rica

Collaborative Project will see Waste Plastic from River Transformed into RESIN8™

March 29, 2023

Costa Rica

Center for Regenerative Design & Collaboration (CRDC) is turning plastic waste into a low-carbon concrete additive

Read the experts at PA Consulting explain how CRDC GLOBAL and RESIN8™ recycled content from plastic waste are "directly addressing two of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.

January 29, 2025

South Africa

Dow Awards CRDC With Business Impact Award

Dow, the world’s leading chemical and scientific materials company, has awarded the Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration South Africa (CRDC SA) the Dow Business Impact Fund Award.

May 7, 2021

Costa Rica

Center for Regenerative Design & Collaboration (CRDC) is turning plastic waste into a low-carbon concrete additive

Read the experts at PA Consulting explain how CRDC GLOBAL and RESIN8™ recycled content from plastic waste are "directly addressing two of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.

January 29, 2025

Costa Rica

Pioneering Circular Plastic Use in Belén

Kicking off its second year in the dynamic business landscape of Belén, Costa Rica, the innovative “Plástico Circular” initiative is establishing a new benchmark in collaboration for eco-friendly plastic stewardship.

December 12, 2024

CRDC IN THE NEWS

What they're saying

South Africa

SA Rugby

Green and bold: Making an impact off the field

January 31, 2025

Costa Rica

UNDP

The RESIN8™ Revolution: Private innovation and local projects unite to combat plastic waste

June 1, 2024

Global

Social Capital Insider

Authenticity Rules: Business Leaders’ Tips on How to Be Real – and Why

February 10, 2025

Global

Social Capital Insider

The Shot Heard Around the Business World – And the Heroes of American Business

December 12, 2024

Mexico

COARQCUN

Cancun College of Architects attends CMIC presentation on sustainable construction with RESIN8™

November 26, 2024

Global

S&P LIVE

S&P Global Insights: APPEC perspectives with Donald Thomson

September 11, 2024

Global

the cool down

CRDC develops innovative technology to turn plastic waste into concrete additive

June 13, 2024

Costa Rica

vida y éxito

Circular Plastics Initiative will educate 4,500 students on environmental issues and waste management

May 13, 2024

Australia

ReINFORCED EARTH COMPANY

Turning plastic waste into eco-concrete

May 2, 2024

Australia

plastics today

Firm making concrete additive from mixed plastic waste opens first plant in Australia

April 29, 2024

USA

YORK DAILY RECORD

CRDC In York Now Charging to Accept residential recycling

April 21, 2024

Mexico

trivasa

Trivasa presents new line of sustainable blocks with RESIN8™

March 18, 2024

Social Capital Insider

Authenticity Rules: Business Leaders’ Tips on How to Be Real – and Why

FINBOOT

Transforming Plastic Waste into Building Materials: An Interview with the CEO of CRDC, Donald Thomson

TONIIC

Why Toniic members invested in CRDC

Sustainable brands

Not Their Waste, But Still Their Problem: How Alaska Is Managing an Influx of Global Marine Debris

Qcostarica

Costa Rica has the first large-scale plant in the world that transforms unwanted plastic waste

CSR Wire

Georgia-Pacific Recycling Helps CRDC Global Create Value From Plastics

Concrete Products

CRDC dedicates concrete-grade, recycled plastic-derived aggregate plant

central penn business journal

WellSpan partners with York firm to recycle plastic waste

Central penn business journal

CRDC York facility ramping up recycling of unwanted plastic waste

Construction Demolition

CRDC turns plastic scrap into concrete additive at new Pennsylvania facility

York daily record

York City partners with CRDC Global in effort to become first plastic-free city in U.S.

Alliance to end plastic waste

Turning hard-to-recycle plastic into concrete products

WITF

New plant in York uses plastic waste to make concrete

CITY OF YORK

York City Announces Plastic-Waste Free-Goal

plastics recycling update

Building a solution: Plastic-to-concrete additive plant opens

York Daily Record

From plastic to concrete, new recycling facility opens in York County

York Daily Record

Production plant that converts hard-to-recycle plastic waste to open in York

YORK DAILY RECORD

CRDC In York Now Charging to Accept residential recycling

Social Capital Insider

The Shot Heard Around the Business World – And the Heroes of American Business

Braskem USA

Braskem Completes U.S. Innovation and Technology Center Expansion

SA Rugby

Green and bold: Making an impact off the field

Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing

RESIN8™ process turns waste plastic into concrete additive

UNDP

The RESIN8™ Revolution: Private innovation and local projects unite to combat plastic waste

habitat FOR HUMANITY

Valle Azul: 102 “Eco-sustainable homes”

Braskem USA

Braskem is first in North America to use RESIN8™ construction materials utilizing post-consumer plastic waste

Caribbean Accelerator

RESIN8™ to bolster sustainability targets in the Caribbean towards a Net-Zero 2050

k-online

Plastic waste as a valuable resource for the construction industry

Globalvia

Route 27 and Pedregal join forces to transform plastic waste into raw material for asphalt

E&N

Company in Costa Rica transforms plastic waste into construction products

delfino

Costa Rica will have a plant that transforms unwanted plastic waste into infrastructure

habitat FOR HUMANITY

Habitat for Humanity El Salvador builds 10 houses using blocks with RESIN8™

Polyco

A first for Africa: Polyco invests in new recycling technology – converting unrecyclable plastic into eco-concrete

pr newswire

First-ever U.S. facility transforms unwanted plastic waste into concrete additive

pa consulting

CRDC Global and PA Consulting — Working Together to Regenerate Plastic Waste into a Carbon Capture Aggregate

anáhuac mayab

Alliance created in favor of sustainable construction

scripps news

Your water bottle could soon be used to construct buildings

Plastics Engineering

Reinforcing Concrete With Mixed Plastics Waste

Recycling Today

CRDC Global to use Finboot blockchain technology to bolster RESIN8™ production processes

Recycling Today

RESIN8™ process turns end-of-life plastic into concrete additive

obras POR expansión

El concreto con plástico evoluciona: pasa de ser una utopía a un negocio real

center for social capital

Don Thomson Creates a Win-Win-Win from ‘Tragic Plastic’ Waste

pa consulting

CRDC: Turning plastic waste into low-carbon concrete additive

trivasa

Trivasa presents new line of sustainable blocks with RESIN8™

plastics today

Firm making concrete additive from mixed plastic waste opens first plant in Australia

COARQCUN

Cancun College of Architects attends CMIC presentation on sustainable construction with RESIN8™

ReINFORCED EARTH COMPANY

Turning plastic waste into eco-concrete

vida y éxito

Circular Plastics Initiative will educate 4,500 students on environmental issues and waste management

the cool down

CRDC develops innovative technology to turn plastic waste into concrete additive

S&P LIVE

S&P Global Insights: APPEC perspectives with Donald Thomson

Media Update

CRDC SA & RESIN8™ win Eco-Innovation & Waste Innovation Ecologic awards

NEWS24

SA’s chip packets, car bumpers are being turned into bricks

Concrete Trends

New life for waste plastic as concrete aggregate

SA RUGBY

Boks go-even greener on match day in Cape Town

CRDC IN MOTION

Featured videos

Global

Nasdaq Trade Talks

Why the Global Push for Sustainability and Climate Resilience Has Created a Burgeoning Market

September 24, 2024

Global

PA Consulting

CRDC: Turning plastic waste into a low-carbon concrete additive

January 23, 2024

CRDC IN THE LAB

RESIN8™ Research

RESIN8©: A Micro-Plastic Assessment and Product Circularity When Used in CMUs and Concrete Pavers

Engineering Advances (2021) 1(1), 1-8.

Effects of Waste Plastic and Glass Aggregates on the Strength Properties of Ambient-Cured One-Part Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer Concrete

Applied Science (2024) 14: 1856.

Mechanical and Durability Assessment of Recycled Waste Plastic (Resin8 & PET) Eco-Aggregate Concrete

Sustainability 2022, 14(9),5725

Behaviour of concrete building units incorporating waste plastic eco-aggregate (RESIN8) subjected to fire conditions

Journal of Building Engineering 76 (2023), Article 107393

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