Recycling & regrind

Recycling is our
fail-safe, not
our business model.

Six percent of our intake reaches this service, and we treat each one as a small defeat. But when a bottle is genuinely finished, it becomes clean HDPE regrind — not a landfill ticket with a green sticker on it.

Quote an end-of-life loadScrap value paid, documentation provided

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* requiredPhone & postal code: US or Canada onlyQuantity 1–10,000

No phone calls from us — we answer by email from sales@ibc-recycle.com. Privacy

Intake recycled

the other 94% is reused

HDPE recovered

1.9k t

since 2009

Steel recovered

3.4k t

cages and pallets

Residual waste

1.4%

gaskets and labels — our open problem

Component by component

Where every part actually goes

If a recycler cannot tell you this table for your material, they are a transfer station with good branding.

Component	Mass	Process	Second life
HDPE bottle	20.5 kg	Valve and label stripped, cut, hot-washed, granulated to 10–12 mm, metal-detected, air-classified	Pipe, pallets, drainage board, plastic lumber
Galvanised cage	36 kg	Baled and shipped to a regional mill	New structural steel
Steel pallet base	12 kg	Harvested as a spare where sound, otherwise baled	Replacement bases, or new steel
Valve assembly	0.9 kg	Threads tested; sound units become spares	Replacement valves, or mixed plastics
Gaskets, seals, labels	0.2 kg	Separated; currently waste to energy	Energy recovery — the stream we have not solved

Documented per load if you need it for waste reporting. We issue a disposition statement listing tonnage by stream.

Who uses this service

Three situations

Site clean-outs
A yard full of mixed empties, drums, cages and pallets accumulated over years. We quote the whole job, sort it here, and pay you for whatever is recoverable instead of charging for disposal.
Fleet retirement
A returnable programme reaching end of life. We triage the fleet, rebottle what is worth rebottling, buy what is resaleable and recycle the rest — with one document covering all three outcomes.
Compliance-driven destruction
Some products require that the container never re-enters commerce. We destroy the bottle, document it, and recycle the material. The cage still gets a second life.

Honest limits