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HDPE scrap and regrind: buyers and what sets the price
HDPE scrap comes from rigid packaging (bottles, drums, jerrycans, crates), pipe, and production waste. Buyers are recyclers and pelletizers, and processors that mould or extrude recycled HDPE into pipe, crates, pallets and non-food containers. Source, colour and what the item used to contain drive the price.
Common 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
Who 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.
Price drivers
- Natural material sells above coloured; single colour above mixed.
- Previous contents matter: chemical drums need cleaning and paperwork.
- Regrind sells above whole items; washed regrind and pellets above unwashed.
- Melt flow index (MFI) of the source (blow, injection, pipe grade) decides which processor can use it.
What to tell buyers
- 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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