Recyclable plastic packaging

"Only 2.5% of plastic bottles used in Europe are recycled"

Plastic in a landfill site

Chocolate box tray

Our Plastic Collection Service

We have a range of sizes of container which you can use to collect your plastic for recycling. We operate a collection service 7 days a week, and will visit you as often as you like, whenever it suits you.

If you would like us to contact you to tell you more about the service we provide, fill in our contact form and we will respond to you shortly:  Contact Form

Alternatively, email us by clicking the following link: query@recycling-solutions.co.uk

About Plastic

Plastic packaging is frequently used in products because it is strong, lightweight and often cheaper than alternatives. To throw such a valuable product out to be dumped or incinerated is obviously a very unsound strategy in environmental terms, and will either add non-degrading bulk to ugly landfill sites, or pollutants to the atmosphere.

The benefits of recycling plastic are the reduction of waste, the conservation of non-renewable energy and fuels (it takes considerably less energy to recycle plastic than to create virgin plastic from scratch), and the reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions into the atmosphere. It is apparent from these benefits how valuable a contribution you are making to protecting our planet by recycling plastic.

All plastic can be recycled, but different types of plastic differ in quality, quantity and the cost involved in recycling. There are many different types of plastic product, such as water bottles, cling film, plastic in cars, kitchenware, etc., and they all have different properties which require to be treated in different ways for recycling. Sophisticated machinery now exists for segregating the different types of plastic. These machines can automatically sort using a combination of spectroscopic identification methods and optical sensors to identify different polymers.

The plastic is reprocessed into pellets and flakes, which can then be reused to produce new products once they have been purified to ensure hygienic reuse. The pictures below show the pellets made from various plastic products:

• Milk chocolate box trays - PVC (polyvinyl)

• Fruit baskets - Polyethylene mix

• Pallets - High Density Polyethlene - (HDPE)

• Milk containers - HDPE

Garden seat made from recycled plastic

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Recycled plastics are all around you - from litter bins to garden furniture to food packaging. You should do your bit too!