EnviroGLAS, based out of Lance Armstrong’s hometown of Plano, Texas is doing great things for waste diversion. Taking the “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra to heart, EnviroGLAS operates a company that makes hard surfaces out of what would otherwise be waste porcelain and glass.

Helping to reduce our landfills, EnviroGLAS produces flooring materials (EnviroTRAZ) tile (EnviroPLANK), countertops (EnviroSLAB) and landscaping materials (EnviroSCAPE) out of waste glass, stone and porcelain. Updating the mosaic for the sustainably-minded consumer, these building materials mix resin with crush substrates to produce a beautiful, durable, easily manipulated material to replace less sustainable options, like marble.

The amalgum of waste glass and resin yields a superdurable material with the benefits of plastic and the beauty of terrazzo, the Mediterranean cousin to mosaic. Further, the materials are a snap to clean. Because of their resin mix, they are neither porous nor easily scratchable.

EnviroGLAS offers particular advantage to consumers in that their product can be easily customized. The type, size and color of the glass or porcelain in the building material can be up to the cosumer, as well as the binder, or grout-like resin mixed with the substrate, allowing consumers to tailor their building materials to planned color schemes. In this way, EnviroGLAS economically serves up environmental benefit, style and practicality.

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