Plastics
Plastics are among the versatile materials available and come in many shapes and sizes. All plastic types are recyclable.
Once plastics are sorted into their respective types they can then be melted, shredded or granulated and used to make new plastic-based products.
Environment First can accept a wide range of plastic waste and can collect it loose or baled depending on your preferences:
- All forms and colours of PP
- All forms of PET
- All forms of LDPE
- All forms of HDPE
- All forms of EPS
- Polytunnel
- Corex
Rebates for plastic recycling
We track plastic prices through Lets Recycle but for accurate pricing please call us for a rebate price.
Plastic recycling FAQs
We have a lot of plastic can you recycle it all?
Please see above for the types of plastic we can recycle. If you are unsure what plastic type you have please Contact Us so we can arrange a call or site visit to assess your recycling needs.
Can we rent or buy a plastic baler from you?
YES we can supply new and refurbished balers of a wide variety of sizes and brands. Contact Us for more information.
Will we make money for selling our plastic for recycling?
We track our prices through Lets Recycle and can help you make estimates about the ROI from selling baled plastic for recycling. For accurate pricing please call us for a rebate price.
Balers
We are able to offer balers for your plastic baling. These can either be rented from us on a weekly basis or purchased outright. We can offer a full-service maintenance contract which includes 2 x Services under PUWER Regulations.
The size of the baler depends primarily on the size of plastic you are most commonly flattening as waste, and the overall volume of waste you are producing.
Most balers are run regularly so that your team can drop waste in and flatten in a cycle each time, continuously adding over a day or several days until it is full and the bale can be ejected.
Keep it dry! Balers can be situated indoors or outdoors. If outdoors the machinery should be kept under shelter.
Buy or hire?
In general, hiring the equipment makes most sense for the majority of commercial facilities.
With NO up front capital expenditure you immediately realise the revenue of selling recyclable cardboard and the savings of reducing your general waste volumes.
Hiring equipment also gives you greater flexibility in terms of scaling up, moving site, and modernising when your processes need more advanced kit.
BENEFITS
Our professional service, tailored to your business needs can offer:
Specialist advice
Specialist early-stage advice on how best to meet your individual waste processing needs
Invoicing & reporting
Consolidated invoicing & bespoke recycling performance reports to demonstrate compliance & support your company’s environmental credentials
Collections
Scheduled or ad hoccollections depending on your requirements
Specialist advice
Specialist early-stage advice on how best to meet your individual waste processing needs
Invoicing & reporting
Consolidated invoicing & bespoke recycling performance reports to demonstrate compliance & support your company’s environmental credentials
Collections
Scheduled or ad hoccollections depending on your requirements