Recycling Plastic Waste
Plastic Recyclers have the Solution
There seems to be a general perception that Plastic is not recyclable, when in fact recyclers have been collecting,
sorting, cleaning, shredding, melting and remoulding waste plastics into valuable reusable products for generations.
Refer to the chart below for just a small sample of the types of plastics and the products
that can be made with the recycled plastic materials.
Chemical recycling is another method of recycling plastics. All types of plastic
can be fed into a recycling system which breaks down plastic
waste to its molecular building blocks. This is an effective way of transforming the plastic waste
into a raw material that can be used in
the process of making virgin-quality plastics and other valuable products.
a Plastic Waste
Solution
Plastic Recycling
Recycle Your Plastics Today
- The Plastic Waste Recovery industry has thousands of buyers and sellers
that are eagerly awaiting your
offers
right NOW.
Plastic is an endlessly recyclable commodity and this valuable resource should be preserved not discarded or disposed of.
Plastic Recycling Information
For anyone seeking current information or research data on the plastic recycling industry,
you may access and ask your
Recycling Questions
to a core group of experienced and knowledgeable recycling industry professionals.
Recycling Marketplace
In order to support sustainable recycling efforts a marketplace has been established to facilitate the efficient
exchange of plastic materials by providing a direct connection between
waste plastic generators and worldwide end users of reclaimed plastics.
Please feel free to
ADD or VIEW
Inquiries for different types of plastic materials.
The exchange service has been successfully matching wanted and available requests on-line continuously since 1995.
Understanding the
Scrap, Regrind & Repro
stages of the plastic recycling process.
Unsortable Plastic Waste
The recovery of Mixed Unsortable Plastic Wastes may be achieved through a Energy from Waste (EFW) process.
These waste materials may be marketed as High BTU HydroCarbon Waste (HBHW), you may
Submit a Listing
to the Waste to Energy (WTE) exchange.
The exchange service connects generators of High BTU HydroCarbon Waste materials directly with dealers and End Users of HBHW.
Mixed Plastic Wastes,
Material Recovery Yields
Plastic Toll Grinding
Plastic toll grinding and toll processing allows manufacturers to recover and reuse plastic scrap, purge and waste. This process sorts, grinds, shreds, pelletizes and compounds the plastics, reducing them down to granulated chips and flake. Often toll grinding is outsourced to companies that have the proper equipment for a “toll” or fee.
If you require toll grinding and repurposing of your plastic waste please feel free to add a listing into the
Toll Grinding Exchange.
Please feel free to ADD a Wanted listing if you are looking for Toll Grinding services or an Available listing if this is a service you can provide, to the online exchange or check-out & respond to Current Inquiries. You may also wish to directly contact traders and dealers.
Plastic to Oil
There are currently two predominate approaches to
Hydrocarbon recovery,
the first process is the conversion of plastic waste
HBHW
into oil, typically utilizing a
Gasification
or Pyrolysis method and then
Bio-Refining
the off-gas oils.
The second traditional method is by direct capture of the BTU values in a
Waste to Energy (WTE)
system.
If you wish to find a market for
Pyrolysis Materials
please feel free to ADD a listing to the
Bio Materials
exchange.
Plastic Recycling Company Directory
There are a multitude of companies actively involved in buying, selling and recycling plastics each and every day,
you may use the
Plastic Recycling Company Directory
to assist you in locating potential new trading partners.
Market Price Trends
The Plastic Recycling Composite Index tracks market price trends for a basket of plastics grades.
The Index takes a
daily snapshot
of spot market prices and allows you to freely take a quick view of the past 7, 30, 90 days and 1 & 2 year trends.
If you require a more granular view of the spot market prices, subscriptions are available.
Plastic Recycling Price Trends
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Plastic Market Dynamics
The Plastics Recycling market operates largely on a
De-Centralized
basis, with no formal centralized market or dominant buyers, so market conditions and prices can fluctuate radically.
The marketing of scrap Plastics occurs on a transactional basis between the buyers and sellers and have no direct
controlling factors, so market prices tend to vary widely depending on the aggressiveness of buyers.
In the plastic industry virgin resins are produced as a petrochemical by-product by a very few large manufacturers,
and distributed on mass, so primary manufacturers have no direct link to the recycling chain.
Virgin plastic resins are distributed to compounders who package into smaller quantities for
wholesale and industrial retail distribution. Compounders can add colorants and fillers and may
blend some recycled content into their product, but their main focus is on distribution to plastic product manufacturers.
Plastic product manufacturers are involved in manufacturing and selling technical products (widgets) or packaging to a
wide spectrum of industries across all sectors of business. The users of these industrial plastic products are
focused on their own product production and marketing of which the plastic components may only consist of a small fraction
of there overall product. The manufacturers and end users of these products are generators of end of life plastic wastes
and have no direct method to naturally interact with the plastic recycling industry.
The plastic recycling industry is highly fragmented with no dominant consolidation of worldwide players, no focused political lobby,
and with no targeted high budget marketing message of any trade association.
The plastic recycling industry is dis-associated from the primary plastics industries and finds itself as an orphan in a world
searching for environmental solutions.
The message that the plastic recyclers have for viable working solutions goes unheard or is misunderstood.
Plastic Recyclers have the Solution
Plastic Recycling Equipment
If you wish to buy Plastic Recycling Equipment
feel free to browse the equipment directory or if you wish to buy or sell used equipment
ADD your inquiry
to the used plastic equipment exchange.
Plastics in the Ocean
Growing awareness of plastic debris in rivers, lakes and oceans have elevated concerns of
Ocean Pollution
to become viewed as a worldwide crisis.
Please feel free to share your views and opinions to the
Climate Change Discussion
group.
Learn more about the industry with Recycling 101, You also may ask your Recycling Industry questions.
