HDPE regrind & bales
What’s left when
a bottle finally
gives up.
Six percent of our intake cannot be saved. Those bottles are cut, washed, granulated and sold as clean HDPE regrind — feedstock for pipe, pallets, drainage board and plastic lumber. It is the last link in the loop and it is still not waste.
Recovered to date
1.9k t
HDPE granulated, not buried
Typical MFI
0.3–0.9
g/10 min, blow-moulding grade source
Contamination
<1%
sorted and washed before granulation
Lot size
1–22 t
gaylord to full truckload
Material grades
Four streams, sorted at source
Because our feedstock is a single product type — IBC bottles — the resin is unusually consistent compared with kerbside HDPE. That is the selling point.
| Stream | Source | Colour | Wash | Typical end use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural HDPE regrind | Food and technical grade bottles, label-free | Natural translucent | Hot wash, rinsed, dried | Pipe, pallets, injection moulded parts |
| Mixed-colour HDPE regrind | Printed and tinted bottles | Mixed / grey | Hot wash, rinsed, dried | Drainage board, plastic lumber, base layers |
| Unwashed flake | Technical bottles, buyer washes | Mixed | Cut and granulated only | Buyers with their own wash line |
| Baled film & wrap | Pallet wrap and liners from intake | Clear / mixed | Baled dry | Film reprocessing |
How it gets made
Cut, sort, wash, granulate
A bottle only enters this process after a technician has signed that it cannot be washed, repaired or rebottled. Recycling is the fail-safe, not the plan.
- Valve, gasket and labels removed and separated
- Bottle cut and inspected for non-HDPE inclusions
- Hot wash with caustic to strip residue and adhesive
- Granulated to 10–12 mm flake, metal-detected and air-classified
- Dried, sampled, bagged into gaylords or bulk-loaded
Have a pile of dead totes?
Cracked bottles, rusted cages, units that have held something nobody can identify — that is still 150 pounds of recoverable material per unit, and we will pay scrap value for it rather than charging you disposal.
We also take cage-only loads, pallet-only loads and mixed poly drums. If you are clearing a site, say so in the message field and we will quote the whole clean-out as one job.
What we pay for empties →
Buying resin or selling scrap?
Both start with the same form. Tell us tonnage, colour tolerance and your wash capability and we will quote within a day.