PLASTIC BOTTLE RECYCLING
Plastic Bottle Recycling For Businesses
We collect bulk loads of plastic bottles from businesses across the UK, including PET drinks bottles and HDPE milk, detergent and chemical bottles. Baled or loose in cages, we will find a home for the material and the paperwork to prove it.
Who we collect from
- Manufacturing & packing
- Retail & distribution
- Warehousing & logistics
- Councils & public sector
BULK PLASTIC BOTTLE COLLECTION
PET And HDPE Bottle Recycling Services UK-Wide
Plastic bottles are one of the few packaging streams with a genuine end market. PET drinks bottles are recycled back into new bottles, food trays and polyester fibre; HDPE bottles go into pipe, crates, damp-proof membrane and non-food packaging. Sorted and baled properly, they are worth money rather than costing it.
The problem for most businesses is volume and space. Empty bottles are mostly air, so a bin fills in hours and a general commercial waste contract charges you to move it. Baling on site changes the economics completely, and we can supply the equipment as well as the collection.
We collect clear and coloured PET, natural and coloured HDPE, and mixed bottle loads. We can also collect plastic caps and labels.
PET & HDPE
100% Recyclable
The process
How our plastic bottle collections work
We provide a dedicated point of contact for each of our customers, with clear communication throughout. Collections are available on an ad-hoc or scheduled basis.
1
Send us your details
Send us your contact information, waste details and collection address.
2
Receive a quote
We provide a price or rebate for the collection, depending on the volume, grade and location.
3
Arrange a collection
Licensed carriers and our haulage network. Baled or palletised waste.
4
Recycle your materials
Sorted, washed and reprocessed into new products. No waste is sent to landfill or incineration.
5
Receive documentation
Waste Transfer Note and recycling certificate provided for your audit file.
Recycling Methods
How Are Plastic Bottles Recycled?
The recycling process begins with collection and sorting. Bottles are separated by polymer and by colour, usually with optical sorters, because clear PET carries a far higher value than mixed colour. Caps and labels are removed at this stage.
The sorted material is then shredded into flake, washed to remove residue and adhesive, and dried. Flake is either used as a washed flake or extruded into pellets. Food-grade PET goes through an additional decontamination step so that recycled plastics can go back into drinks bottles rather than being wasted. The process involves four key steps:
- Collection and sorting
- Shredding and washing
- Drying and pelletising
- Extrusion into new products
Equipment
Balers For Plastic Bottles
If you are producing bottles daily, baling them on site makes them easy to store and far cheaper to move. We provide a range of balers to hire or buy, alongside collections for the finished bales.
- Small vertical balers for retail, bars and offices
- Medium balers for warehouses and production areas
- Mill size balers for high-throughput sites
- Baling wire, consumables and servicing
Compliance
Your duty of care, documented
Every load is tracked and every document is issued as standard, so your audit file is complete without anyone chasing us for paperwork. Copies are available on request at any time from our waste management team.
Waste Transfer Notes
ISSUED
Registered waste carrier licence
ON FILE
Permitted destination sites
AUDITED
Recycling certificates & audit trail
PER LOAD
Dedicated account manager
EVERY CLIENT
FAQs
We collect bottles that are baled or palletised for bulk loads. If yours are loose, we can supply a baler to compact them, which reduces your storage requirement and improves the rebate available.
Yes, for a large enough amount of clean, well-sorted material. Clear PET achieves the best rate, followed by natural HDPE. Mixed colour loads are worth less but can usually still be collected at a reduced cost compared with a general commercial waste contract.
They need to be empty and dry. Small amounts of residue are acceptable, but liquid adds weight, causes contamination in the bale and can lead to a load being rejected.
It is better to separate them. Mixed loads are accepted, but sorted material achieves a materially better reprocessing.
Recycling plastic bottles cuts the demand for virgin polymer and the energy used to produce it. Because PET and HDPE can be reprocessed repeatedly, they keep circulating as recycled plastics instead of being burned or buried. This reduces waste, emissions and raw material extraction at the same time.