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A cedar bench may smell like summer, yet its fibers swell, crack, and invite mildew long before the warranty expires. By contrast, Polywood’s high-density polyethylene chairs—pressed from discarded milk jugs—carry a twenty-year guarantee and stay outside through storms and sun without splintering. Loll Designs echoes that confidence, telling buyers to forget winter storage entirely, while Canada’s C.R. Plastics backs its recycled lumber with a twenty-five-year pledge against rot or splitting, even after the freeze-thaw cycles of a prairie January.
The secret is chemistry rather than coatings. Moisture never penetrates the closed-cell structure of recycled HDPE, so fungi, termites, and rust have nothing to feed on. Because UV stabilisers and pigment are blended through the molten polymer—ColorStay is Polywood’s trademarked recipe—the hue runs all the way to the core; a decade of ultraviolet bombardment may dull paint, but it barely scuffs an Adirondack molded in teal. That same non-porous surface shrugs off sea spray and bleach alike, making routine care little more than a garden-hose rinse.
Some manufacturers go further, engineering recycled plastic into composites that outperform metal. Emeco’s 111 Navy Chair mixes PET bottle pellets with glass fiber, producing a one-piece frame tough enough for commercial kitchens and resistant to the scratches that mar powder-coated steel. Density adds another, unexpected advantage: a recycled-plastic rocker typically weighs more than its pine counterpart, so a coastal gale that would send wicker cartwheeling leaves the chair exactly where you set it—still bright, still smooth, and still immune to the troubles that traditional materials feel.
