New NERC Advisory Member Revolution has a mission. “We believe in manufacturing products with the highest amount of post-consumer recycled 
resin possible through our innovative Closed-Loop System that diverts millions of pounds of plastic waste from landfills each year,” the company states. As a measure of its success, Revolution continues, “We recover, clean and process more than 150 million pounds of material each year and, since our founding, we have diverted 1.5 billion pounds of waste material from landfills.”
Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Revolution turns the post-consumer plastics it collects into products through a growing number of brands. “The focus in all areas is to create sustainable circular solutions and use as much post-consumer resin as possible in all products manufactured,” the company states.
Not only is Revolution “one of the largest recyclers of heavily soiled and contaminated plastic in the U.S.” It uses that recycled plastic to become one of the leading manufacturers of irrigation polytube under its Delta Plastics brand along with vine cover, silage and bunker film for the agricultural industry
Another brand, Revolution Bag, “uses a closed-loop recycling process in which agricultural films are gathered from farms and washed and recycled to produce Encore, a high-quality APR certified Post-Consumer resin.” The company deploys the resin to create can liners that have up to 97% of the recycled resin.
Consumers may also see Revolution as they supply carryout and reusable bags for foodservice, grocery and retail markets under their Command brand also using as much post-consumer resin as possible.
Despite such manifold activity, Revolution continues on its growth trajectory. The company rece
ntly announced the purchase of the Indiana-based Jadcore, which recycles post-industrial plastic waste and supplies it to other manufacturers. Like Revolution Bag, Jadcore also manufactures can liners and specialty bags made from post-industrial recycled (PIR) resin.
“Our shared values create an exciting opportunity for collaboration,” said Sean Whiteley, CEO of Revolution. “We are confident this merger will strengthen our combined ability to serve new end markets and deliver closed-loop collections, recycling services and manufacturing solutions rich in recycled content.”
A statement by CEO Whitely upon the occasion of Revolution’s announced expansion of its Little Rock facility captures the mission of the company. “From the beginning, we have been unified by a single powerful mission of preserving our environment for future generations,” he said. “We do this by diverting millions of pounds of plastic from landfills each year and turning it back into new products through our innovative collection and recycling processes.”
“We joined NERC after attending and presenting at conferences and webinars, and working closely with staff. We discovered that NERC is not only a unique resource sharing our goals, but provides opportunities for collaboration and engagement in meaningful and impactful ways. We are grateful to be part of NERC,” Cherish Miller, Vice President, Sustainability & Public Affairs stated.
Despite the impressive strides that Revolution and its brands have made in addressing solutions to the plastics pollution crisis, the company is well aware that extensive collaborative action will be required to successfully solve it. That is why, in 2020, Revolution joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative led by NERC Advisory Member The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and launched as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network. NERC is also a member of the Pact. The U.S. Plastics Pact brings together companies, government entities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), researchers, and other stakeholders, “to rethink the way we design, use, and reuse plastics, to create a path toward a circular economy for plastic in the United States.”
“The U.S. Plastics Pact will deliver a step change toward a circular economy, enabling companies and governments in the U.S. to collectively meet impactful by 2025 that they could not meet on their own,” Revolution stated at the time.
NERC welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with its new Advisory Member, and looks forward to the opportunity to build upon the solutions that Revolution has thus far realized.