Plastic bottles of any type can be recycled, including clear or coloured drinks, cloudy milk bottles or washing up and shampoo bottles. They can easily be recycled along with cans in our special clear plastic sacks.
Paper Round collects these sacks at the same time as your paper and other recyclables.
Paper Round collects both clear PET and cloudy HDPE plastic bottles. These are separated by specialist equipment to enable them to be recycled separately.
PET plastic bottles are washed and flaked. Flakes can be spun into fibres for clothing or carpets. Recycled PET is also being used to make bottles, closing the recycling loop.
HDPE plastic is made back into plastic containers.
Other remaining sundry plastics tend to go into a mixed plastic grade. This is converted into things like drainage pipes and ‘Plaswood’, a wood substitute used to make outdoor furniture and pallets.
Paper Round only collects plastic bottles as these can be easily recycled into high quality plastic bottles and fibres. Mixed plastics and film cause many problems for recycling plants. They are often contaminated with food and are difficult to recycle. Plastic film blows off high speed sorting lines and clogs machinery. Focussing on bottles gives a clear easily understood message to staff and gives the best environmental results.
Office Recycling 
Collect plastic bottles and cans in our grey Slim Jim bin fitted with a green can lid. The lid keeps recycling neat and encourages staff to keep out rubbish. The plastic bin can easily be kept clean and is the right size for our sacks.