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 at our clean MRF Merchanting Centre 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.
