CK Polymers are one of the fastest growing plastic recycling companies in the UK today. We have several plastic recycling facilities and a network of recycling partners across the UK so we can arrange collection of your plastic waste from wherever you are. If you have obligations under the packaging waste directive CK Polymers are accredited for the issue of PRNs.

CK Polymers buy plastic waste for recycling and can also offer recycling processes on a toll processing basis. Below you will find a brief description of our Size Reduction plastic recycling process.

Before the plastic waste can be melted down and recycled into plastic pellets for moulding into new products it must be reduced in size. At its most basic this is a case of sawing large items of scrap so that they will fit down the throat of the granulation machines.

Shredding is a much more efficient way of reducing the size of large scrap plastic items. A shredder basically consists of a large tank that the scrap is fed into, at the bottom of which are heavy duty rotating blades which quite literally rip the plastic to shreds.

The output of the shredding process is irregular sized strips of plastic which will be up to several inches in length (still too big for the compounding process).

Finally comes granulation. Granulation is probably the most common form of plastic recycling and there are many granulation companies dotted around the UK.

The process again involes a set of rotating blades, but unlike shredding the granulation process chips the plastic scrap. Grids can also be used with the granulation machines to control the size of the resulting regrind (also known as reground). Typically plastic regrind has a diameter of about 10mm which is ideal for the compounding process.