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PP scrap buyers: who buys polypropylene and what they check
Polypropylene is one of the most traded recycled plastics. Its scrap comes from injection moulding, woven bags and big bags, strapping, crates, automotive parts and battery cases. Buyers are pelletizers and moulders that use recycled PP in technical and household parts.
01Types of PP scrap
- Injection moulding scrap and rejects (homopolymer or copolymer)
- Woven PP: big bags (FIBC), raffia, sacks
- PP strapping
- Battery cases (often black copolymer)
- Crates, caps and closures
- Non-woven and fibre waste
02Who buys it
Pelletizers and compounders producing recycled PP, often with fillers; injection moulders of crates, buckets, garden furniture and automotive parts; producers of woven bags who reuse production scrap.
03What PP buyers check first
- Homopolymer or copolymer, and the MFI range
- Colour: natural, light or black
- Printing, coating (laminated big bags) and dust
- Single-source production scrap or mixed post-consumer
04Describe your PP lot like a buyer expects
- Source and grade
- Colour
- Printed or laminated?
- Form and packing
- Quantity, regularity, location
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Questions and answers
Who buys PP scrap?
Pelletizers and compounders producing recycled PP, injection moulders of crates, buckets, garden furniture and automotive parts, and woven-bag producers.
What do PP buyers check first?
Homopolymer or copolymer and the MFI range, colour, printing or lamination, and whether it is single-source production scrap.
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