WRAP Unveils New Plastics Recycling Web Site

The Waste & Resources Action Programme, a United Kingdom-based group, has launched a new internet-based service designed to bring plastic waste generators, recyclers, suppliers and end users together.

“We have developed a fully searchable database of UK reprocessors and traders, so that companies looking to send waste plastic for recycling, and those looking to buy recycled polymers, can find the nearest appropriate company able to meet their requirements,” explains Peter Skelton, WRAP’s Materials Development Manager for plastics.

The Web site, www.recycleplastic.org.uk, covers around 90 accredited reprocessors and traders of waste plastic in the UK from all sectors – industrial, packaging, construction waste and domestic waste plastic. In the case of the reprocessors, the search facility can be refined further so that those who process the plastic into flake or pellet to sell on can easily be identified by manufacturers wanting to use recycled polymers in their processes. This is the only searchable site in the UK with this function.

The website is targeted at two main audiences: local authorities, waste management companies and private businesses (from any sector) who have waste plastic for recycling; and manufacturing companies looking to source recycled polymers for their manufacturing process.