Plastic Recycling Services Near You

What we do and our capabilities

As a market leader, converting over 190,000 tonnes each year of plastic into high quality recycled polymer we are a key contributor to the UK circular economy.

Redcar

Biffa Polymers at Redcar offers a variety of plastic reprocessing services & were the first in the world to produce rHDPE food grade pellets recycled from post consumers sources and were awarded the Queen’s Award for Innovation.

83,000

tonnes per year rHDPE, rPP

Seaham

This £27.5m state of the art PET plastic bottle recycling facility in Seaham is among the most modern and technically advanced in the world. It is part of our ongoing drive to invest in the UK’s recycling infrastructure and encourage more waste recycling at home.

57,000

tonnes per year rPET

Washington

Our facility at Washington is able to reprocess HDPE and PP postconsumer bottles, pots, tubs, and trays into a high quality polymer regrind. In 2022 a PET recovery line was installed enabling us to recover the natural PET flakes arising from by-products of the process at Seaham.

25,000

tonnes per year rPP, rHDPE

Sherburn

Acquired in 2023 the facility at Sherburn in North Yorkshire processes PET flakes into food grade PET pellets. The site complements our PET capability at Seaham and increases our capacity to produce rPET food grade pellets.

25,000

tonnes per year PET

190,000

plastic recycling capacity in tonnes per year

1.3 billion

Seaham capacity to process beverage bottles into recycled PET

Recycled plastic materials we sell

Biffa Polymers produces a variety of recycled plastics which can substitute the use of virgin plastics, significantly reducing your carbon footprint.

Food grade rHDPE natural compound

For use in applications such as the manufacture of new food and cosmetic packaging

Food grade rPET natural compound

For use in applications such as the manufacture of new bottles and food trays, and in fibre manufacture

rPET hot washed natural flake

For use in applications such as the manufacture of sheet, food trays and fibre manufacture

Compounded plastics

The range includes PP, and HDPE, and is available in a wide variety of different grades and colours

Regrind plastics

Blended and washed, and available in 2 different types: HDPE Jazz Extrusion Grade and Polypropylene PP Jazz Injection Regrind

Get in touch

If you would like to discuss opportunities around plastic processing or purchasing any of these recycled plastics, then please complete the enquiry form.

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