Scrap HDPE Contaminants – things to watch out for

In addition to the information already provided on label contaminants, this is an additional guide  outlining other potential contaminants that are often found in HDPE bottles. The severity of the contamination varies from substance to substance, and this guide should prove useful to those seeking to purchase the best quality HDPE scrap, as well as [...]

HDPE Scrap Contamination

Scrap HDPE – Label Contaminant Guide
Scrap HDPE is by its very nature, a product that needs to be handled with great care and expertise if it is to be reprocessed into a high grade raw material for new HDPE products. Unlike freshly manufactured HDPE, scrap HDPE has been exposed to all manner of uses and [...]

Scrap HDPE

What is Scrap HDPE ?
Scrap HDPE is essentially odds and ends of HDPE from HDPE productions, and/or HDPE that has already been produced and subsequently used elsewhere. Scrap HDPE comes in many different forms, which are useful for various types of applications. Buying scrap HDPE is a great way to get cheap HDPE, especially if [...]

HDPE Regrind

HDPE:
(High Density Polyethylene) – HDPE is the most common polyethylene used in industry. Generally used as a sheathing material where it provides high resistance to water penetration, excellent impact resistance and high tensile strength. It has low coefficient of friction and and is abrasion resistant.
HDPE Regrind (HDPE Flakes):
High Density Polyethylene is easily recycled. Manufacturers usually [...]

HDPE barrels

HDPE stands for High Density Polyethylene and is a type of plastic material which is very commonly used in products and packaging such as milk jugs, margarine tubs, garbage containers, detergent bottles and water pipes. HDPE is also used to make jerrycans and barrels (also known as drums).
HDPE Barrels Scrap
HDPE is commonly used in production [...]

Postconsumer HDPE

HDPE stands for High Density Polyethylene and is a form of plastic most commonly used in products and packaging such as milk jugs, margarine tubs, garbage containers, detergent bottles and water pipes.
HDPE is Polyethylene with a density greater or equal to 0.941 g/cm3. It has a low degree of branching and thus stronger intermolecular forces [...]