Category: plastic waste

• COCOPLUM

  

  This company upcycles used prescription bottles into frames for sunglasses

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  August 26, 2025

  beauty, california, consumer product, fashion, plastic diversion, plastic waste, prescription bottles, recycle, upcycling, USA

  beauty, fashion, plasticrecycling, upcycledplastic, upcycling

• ROTHY’S

  

  This lifestyle brand creates a novel “yarn” using single-use plastic bottles and turns them into artfully-designed shoes and other lifestyle products

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  california, fashion, luxury fashion, plastic upcycling, plastic waste, plastic waste, shoes, take back, upcycling, USA

  3D knitting, plastic bottle waste, plastic waste, shoes, takeback

• RECOVER BRANDS

  

  This company offers clothing and other accessories created from recycled bottles and recycled textile fibers, thereby creating a new material from post-consumer waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  clothing, clothing recycling, clothing upcycling, fashion, new material, north carolina, plastic waste, plastic waste, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, take back, upcycling, used clothes

  clothing, post consumer textile waste, takeback

• HAMILTON PERKINS COLLECTION

  

  This upcycling company creates beautiful lifestyle products from recycled materials

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  billboard vinyls, consumer product, fashion, luxury fashion, online marketplace, pineapple, pineapple fiber, plastic waste, plastic waste, upcycling

• THAELY

  

  This company makes upcycled shoes with waste products like plastic bottles, plastic bags, caps and waste rubber.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  Asia, consumer product, fashion, india, plastic waste, rubber, shoes, social enterprise/b corp, upcycling, waste solutions

  fashion, plastic bags, plastic bottles, shoes

• BYFUSION

  

  This company rescues plastic and even nonrecyclables and upcycles them into building blocks to be used for temporary and permanent structures.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 11, 2024

  california, construction material, modular, plastic diversion, plastic diversion system, plastic waste, plastic waste, upcycling, USA