Acrylic Recycling

Buy & Sell Acrylic plastic worldwide at WasteTrade. We specialise in Acrylic Recycling in the UK, where you get the best prices for your Acrylic plastic scrap materials.

Acrylic Recycling

Acrylic recycling can be both lucrative and environmentally friendly when it is done through the WasteTrade marketplace. We have a global userbase that are fully vetted before being given access to our marketplace, offering a far greater exposure of your materials to potential buyers. This increased exposure will make your scrap materials available to far more acrylic recycling facilities than they ever could be while using traditional brokerage services.

This will not only make the process of acrylic recycling quicker and easier for you, but it will also give you the power to choose the best offers for yourself. You are no longer dependent on trusting waste brokers to offer you prices representative of the true value of your materials, nor do you have to worry that your materials are being sent to an unethical end user. You see the true price the buyer is willing to pay, and you know they have been verified by the WasteTrade vetting process.

Creating your account on the WasteTrade marketplace is completely free and we do not charge fees or take commissions on material sold on the platform. You get to keep the money that you sell your materials to acrylic recycling plants for, rather than sharing it with a third party.

Recycling Acrylic

Acrylic is one of the least commonly recycled plastic, as the process is not as accessible as it is for other polymers. Recycling acrylic requires more specialised equipment and expertise than other plastics, many of which can be recycled by a simpler process of shredding, melting and pelletising.

Recycling acrylic is done using a process pyrolysis, in which the acrylic is depolymerised. This process involves exposing the acrylic to molten lead, which breaks the polymer bonds and reduces the acrylic back to its base monomers.

After the process of recycling acrylic has been completed, the recycled material has a wide range of applications. For example, the acrylic can be used in construction materials for soundproof windows and doors, or in medical equipment such as incubators and surgical devices.

Recycle Acrylic

There are many reasons for businesses to choose to recycle acrylic waste rather than send it to landfill or incineration. There are the obvious environmental reasons to do so, as recycling reduces carbon emissions and prevents plastic pollution. However, there are also financial benefits that come with deciding to recycle acrylic waste.

Sending acrylic waste to landfill or incineration comes with a cost to businesses, whereas reprocessors who recycle acrylic will pay businesses for the same materials. Recyclers need a constant feed of materials to make their businesses models viable, and they are prepared to offer competitive prices for them.

As well as the expertise required, another major reason many businesses choose landfill or incineration instead of choosing to recycle acrylic is due to the complicated regulatory challenges it presents. However, WasteTrade handles all the compliance and logistics involved in deals agreed through the platform, removing these obstacles from both parties involved.