A publication of Star Plastics | Winter 2025

Introducing PFAS Free Polycarbonate Compounds

You can take your environmental stewardship to the next level with Star’s PFAS free custom polycarbonate compounds. One reNova® product offers 3rd party validation from UL regarding its recycled content, as well as a UL 94 flame retardant rating of V0, V2 and HB. The corresponding Orion® engineering resin product is also backed by a UL yellow card and its reputation for premium performance. Custom color is available for these products.

You can avoid the headaches of EPA reporting and help your customers deliver sustainable products to the market. This is leading edge technology and Star will be launching more PFAS free products in 2025 for other material grades and end uses

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Improved Ecovadis rating highlights

Star's sustainability journey

In its second year of evaluating Star, EcoVadis, the leading global provider of business sustainability ratings, scored Star eight points higher than last year.

That’s 17 percentile points better than last year, and we’re dedicated to continuous improvement. By using EcoVadis’ recommendations and corrective actions, Star will continue to improve its sustainability as a company. It improved in 2024 and we’ll work to see similar or greater improvement in 2025.

Thanks goes out to our sustainability committee for the hard work on this assessment. Star Market Development Executive and EcoVadis project manager Cheyenne Shankle was instumental in this effort.

The operations and engineering teams have also done an outstanding job in, among other things, putting together a sustainability dashboard. It monitors energy use, metric tons of carbon emissions, costs of utilities and the contribution to carbon emissions created by electric, water, waste water and landfill waste.

Helping Our Neighbors in Need

A Star Plasitcs tradition, the Adopt-A-Family program has been supported by Star and its employees during the holiday season for many years. This year, we raised $8,000 to adopt four local families in need. With the help of local elementary school counsellors, Star adopted families from four different schools in the Ravenswood, WV vicinity.

In addition to this worthy cause. Star donated to Toys for Tots, a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which distributes toys to children whose parents can’t afford to buy them gifts for Christmas. Our thanks go out to our employees for helping our neighbors have a nice holiday season.

See You at PRC 2025!

Star will exhibit at the Plastics Recycling Conference March 24-26 in National Harbor, MD. Over 2,600 plastics recycling industry leaders will gather, and the event will be co-located this year with the Textile Recovery Summit. You can learn more about Star's reNova® recycled resins and the new line of PFAS free polycarbonate compounds. You can learn more about the conference here.