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PET bottle scrap buyers: who they are and how to reach them
PET bottle scrap is bought by washing lines that turn it into flakes, and by plants that turn flakes into fibre, sheet, strapping or new bottles. Each of these buyers has its own quality requirements; reaching the right one is what makes a PET lot easy to sell.
01Forms of PET scrap
- Baled bottles from sorting centres, described by their clear, coloured and foreign-material shares.
- Hot-washed or cold-washed flakes, described by residual PVC, glue, moisture and colour.
- Preform and production scrap, clean and single-source.
- PET film and sheet scrap, a separate outlet from bottles.
02Who buys it
PET washing lines, staple-fibre producers, sheet and thermoforming plants, strapping producers and bottle-to-bottle recyclers. Bottle-to-bottle and food-contact outlets are the most demanding on quality and traceability.
03What PET buyers check first
- Share of clear bottles versus light blue, green and mixed colours
- PVC contamination — the defect PET recyclers fear most
- Caps, labels and residual liquids
- For flakes: intrinsic viscosity (IV) and residual levels
04Describe your PET lot like a buyer expects
- Bales or flakes, bale weight and strapping
- Clear / blue / green / mixed share
- Caps, labels, residual liquid
- Quantity per month or one-off
- Location and loading (truck, 40' container)
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- PVCPVC scrap buyers: who recycles rigid and flexible PVCWho buys rigid and flexible PVC scrap — window profiles, pipe, edge banding, cable — and PVC regrind, what they check first, and how to reach them.
Questions and answers
Who buys PET bottle scrap?
PET washing lines, staple-fibre producers, sheet and thermoforming plants, strapping producers and bottle-to-bottle recyclers.
What do PET recyclers check first?
The share of clear bottles, PVC contamination, caps, labels and residual liquids, and for flakes the intrinsic viscosity (IV) and residual levels.
How does Polyfinder help?
It finds these companies country by country, checks their published contact details and writes to each one in its language, from your own mailbox.
How it works
- 1Describe
What you sell or need: polymer, form, colour, quantity, countries.
- 2Search
Polyfinder finds matching companies on the web, marketplaces and industry registers, and checks each one.
- 3Write
It drafts a first email for each company, in its language and in your style. You approve every one.
- 4Follow up
You send from your own mailbox. Replies come back to you; Polyfinder sorts them and prepares the follow-ups.
Start with one material and one country
Tell us how many people will use it and how many offers you want to push. We open your access and launch the first search with you.