Rida National Plastics: Historic Contributions in
Waste Plastics Recycling and Sustainability Impact
on the Local Circular Economy
A concise summary of Rida National Plastics’ long-standing leadership in manufacturing, recycling and local circular-economy impact.
1. Rida National Plastics is 100% Nigerian owned Company with 67 years of proven manufacturing history of national plastics brands in Nigeria.
2. Rida National Plastics have always been the first plastic company to pioneer various plastics manufacturing processes in Nigeria. We started PVC flooring manufacturing in 1967 by our Super Flex PVC floor tiles Brand. We started injection moulding Chairs in 1978 and injection moulding Crates for beverage industries in 1979. We revolutionised the current plasticware Basin market in Africa.
3. Rida National Plastics are pioneers of plastic recycling in Nigeria starting full engagements in 1994. We have recycled and processed an estimated 165,000 tons of waste plastic between 1996 to date.
4. We have recycled and processed an estimated 38,000 tons of waste plastic PVC slippers (145 million slippers) from 1994 to 2008 for our PVC flooring tiles production was the only locally produced floor product available in Nigeria. We maintained our PVC floor tiles production unit using waste PVC slippers as the core plastic raw material feed stock.
5. Between 1996 and 2014 we have recycled 75% of ALL the white lorry and car battery cases ever imported to Nigeria into Chairs. We have processed 60% of all black battery cases ever imported into Nigeria into our general household basins products and we continue to do so daily. 6. Rida National Plastics has manufactured and sold over 39 million Chairs from 100% waste plastic material between 1996 and 2025.
7. Rida National Plastics has manufactured and sold over 63 million basins over time of various size heavy duty Plastic Basins which are life improvement products that have enormous positive impacts on the lives of tens of millions of Nigerians for water storage, for storage, food preparations, cleaning/washing and multiple other uses.
8. We sell our Finished Plastic Products to the Nigerian population at selling prices lower than the price of Virgin Plastic Raw Material cost in comparing our Finished Plastic Products pricing (in weight).
9. Our waste plastic material collections supply chains depend on thousands of Nigerians; we created and laid the foundation that led to the current national plastics recycling activities providing a current net local raw material supply base of 30,000 tons per annum.
10. Recycling and producing 10,000 tons per year of waste plastic over 10 years has saved CBN N11.3 billion per year in FX imports. We will increase production by 100% to 15,000 tons by 2026 providing CBN a net FX import savings of N29.4 billion Naira per annum (in today’s values).
11. Rida National Plastics has been the absolute instrument in creating and sustaining the current Nigerian Local Plastics Recycling industry of 30,000 tons per annum which has directly saved CBN from N216 billion in foreign exchange for raw material imports over the last 10 years.
12. What we started in waste plastic recycling in 1994 has manifested into a national local content National recycled plastic raw material base of over 100,000 tons per annum.
