Plastic Waste Recycling

Plastic waste is a hot topic and companies can drastically improve their plastic recycling rates by making a few small changes. The implementation of Cawleys Infinity scheme can help organisations segregate plastic drinks bottles, making it easier to recycle.

Cawleys deals with multiple types of plastics from its clients including clear polythene, plastic buckets (a common food industry waste), correx and polystyrene. The right equipment can save on collection costs and valuable space. For example, for a high producer of polystyrene packaging waste an Expanded Polystyrene Reducer to produce compact briquettes from bulky lightweight polystyrene can dramatically reduce transportation costs and enable recycling of a traditionally challenging waste stream. For larger bulk producers of LDPE film (clear plastic wrap), we regularly provide on-site balers to produce mill-sized or smaller bales, making it easier for transportation and storage.

Once collected, single polymer segregated plastics are bulked up and transported by Cawleys to the reprocessors where they are shredded or granulated to produce a ‘re-grind’ material that can be recycled into new plastic products.

Cawleys can deal with many plastic types including:

  • PP – Polypropylene (eg: buckets, trays, crates, correx)

  • PS – Polystyrene (eg: tubs, trays, cup lids)

  • PET – Polyethylene Terephthalate (eg: fizzy drinks bottles, clear san)

  • HDPE – High Density Polyethylene (Eg: milk bottles)

  • LDPE – Low Density Polyethylene (eg: plastic wrap, shrink wrap)

  • EPS – Expanded Polystyrene (reduced)

Contact us today for a quote, free waste audit or a confidential discussion about your waste collection and recycling services.


Foxy Wings

“Using Cawleys as a start-up has been a real life saver. Being able to tap into their years of experience and ask for advice has been an invaluable time saver. They are reliable and quick to action any queries! We would recommend them without hesitation.”

Santa Pod Raceway

“We’re very happy to have a partnership with Cawleys, we have a very busy schedule of events at Santa Pod Raceway and Cawleys provide proven flexibility and reliability that enables us to turn our venue around quickly between events. Friendly drivers with a “can do” attitude makes our partnership work.”

London Luton Airport (LLA)

“It was very important to us to be able to work with a local Luton company for our waste removal contract. Cawleys have provided us with an operation where we have on-site staff ensuring we can maximise our recycling rate.

The Cawleys team are very attentive and work with us round the clock to ensure a smooth operation across the whole estate.”

Foxy Wings

“Using Cawleys as a start-up has been a real life saver. Being able to tap into their years of experience and ask for advice has been an invaluable time saver. They are reliable and quick to action any queries! We would recommend them without hesitation.”

Santa Pod Raceway

“We’re very happy to have a partnership with Cawleys, we have a very busy schedule of events at Santa Pod Raceway and Cawleys provide proven flexibility and reliability that enables us to turn our venue around quickly between events. Friendly drivers with a “can do” attitude makes our partnership work.”

London Luton Airport (LLA)

“It was very important to us to be able to work with a local Luton company for our waste removal contract. Cawleys have provided us with an operation where we have on-site staff ensuring we can maximise our recycling rate.

The Cawleys team are very attentive and work with us round the clock to ensure a smooth operation across the whole estate.”

Foxy Wings

“Using Cawleys as a start-up has been a real life saver. Being able to tap into their years of experience and ask for advice has been an invaluable time saver. They are reliable and quick to action any queries! We would recommend them without hesitation.”