Recycling Plastic

Despite the huge environmental damage caused by plastic products, use of this material is on the increase. Single-use items such as water bottles are clogging our landfill sites and plastic traces are appearing in remote areas of the ocean.

Rebox has always integrated their business with their environmental concerns, so creating a recycling department to handle plastic waste from industrial sources made sense. Of all the materials that Rebox recycles, plastic poses one of the greatest potentials for ecological disaster. Every company wants to ensure that their plastic waste does NOT end up in landfill, and Rebox guarantees that all of the waste material they pick up is delivered directly to the recycling center.

At the recycling plant the plastic is sorted by type. Plastics have resin codes, and it is vitally important that these different grades be properly separated. For example, #1-PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) can be recycled into threaded products such as reusable grocery bags, but #2-HDPE (high density polyethylene) is rigid and can be transformed into new bottles, and even synthetic lumber materials.

After sorting the plastics are cleaned, disinfected and ground into plastic flakes. These flakes are melted. As they near boiling, the liquid plastic is separated into its elements and can be stored as pellets or in granular form. At this point it is ready for reuse in new products.

Rebox can help your company set up a workable plastic waste disposal plan that is both environmentally friendly and financially beneficial.