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HDPE scrap buyers: who uses it and what they check
HDPE scrap comes from rigid packaging, drums, jerrycans, crates, pipe and production waste. It is bought by pelletizers and by processors that mould or extrude recycled HDPE into pipe, crates, pallets and non-food containers.
01Common HDPE scrap types
- Natural (milky) bottles and production scrap
- Coloured bottles and household packaging
- Drums and jerrycans (state previous contents)
- Crates and pallets
- Pipe scrap and pipe regrind
- Purgings and lumps
02Who buys it
Pelletizers producing recycled HDPE granules, pipe extruders using recycled material in non-pressure layers, injection moulders of crates, pallets and buckets, and blow moulders of non-food bottles.
03What HDPE buyers check first
- Natural or coloured, single colour or mixed
- What drums and containers held, and whether they were cleaned
- Whole items, regrind, washed regrind or pellets
- Melt flow index (MFI) of the source: blow, injection or pipe grade
04Describe your HDPE lot like a buyer expects
- Source items and grade (blow, injection, pipe)
- Colour
- Washed or not; previous contents
- Form: whole, bales, regrind, pellets
- Quantity and location
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Questions and answers
Who buys HDPE scrap?
Pelletizers producing recycled HDPE granules, pipe extruders, injection moulders of crates, pallets and buckets, and blow moulders of non-food bottles.
What do HDPE buyers check first?
Colour, what drums and containers held, the form (whole, regrind, washed regrind or pellets) and the melt flow index of the source.
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