How can we reduce plastic waste and create new value?
Plastic is a fantastic material group that provides many benefits, but it also brings many challenges. It’s essential to stop waste plastic from polluting the oceans, and to minimize the use of fossil raw materials when producing new plastic. Efficient plastic recycling is key to your business meeting these challenges.
Whether your company is a commercial user of plastic products or a plastic producer, you can play an important role in keeping plastic waste streams within the circular economy. Working with Stena Recycling, you’ll get a circular partner that provides you with a customized total solution for managing all of your waste plastic, and refines your waste into raw materials for new plastic products.
Why choose Stena Recycling for your plastic recycling?
1. CERTIFIED industrial recycler
Stena Recycling is a certified recycler approved by EUCertPlastic.
2. Extensive network of suppliers and buyers
Whether your company is a commercial user of plastic products or a plastic producer, you can benefit from our extensive network.
3. Traceable raw materials
We apply a local collection and recycling of plastic to enable traceability for the raw material produced.
What if plastic waste became profit?
Your plastic waste can generate revenue and become high-quality raw material when managed correctly. We help you collect, sort, and recycle all types of plastics, supported by our network of buyers.
As an EUCertPlastic-certified recycler, we guarantee transparency and traceability and can supply quality-assured thermoplastics to your specifications, while guiding you toward even higher recycling rates and stronger sustainability performance.
How does plastic become new recycled raw material?
1. Collection
We collect different plastics from production waste, end-of-life products and packaging.
2. Separation
In the case of complex plastic streams, they must be separated using advanced recycling processes.
3. Washing
All recyclable plastic is separated out, washed and extruded.
4. Granulation
We produce granules, small plastic pellets, which become a new circular and climate-smart raw material.
5. Use
The recycled plastic can be used in new products depending on the type (automotive components, electronics, packaging, bins, pipes, etc.)
An innovative approach to plastic recycling
At our largest plant in southern Sweden, Stena Nordic Recycling Center, we have developed new technologies to recycle different plastic qualities.
One recycling process uses a technique that converts soft plastic (LDPE) into pellets, which can then be used to make plastic bags and garbage bags.
Customer cases
Ballograf and Stena Recycling
The famous pen brand Ballograf uses recycled hard plastic in a special edition of the classic ballpoint pen Epoca. The plastic has been recycled from end-of-life electronics at Stena Recycling. “High quality made changing materials easy. It is an important step to reduce our climate impact and there is great interest among customers” says Mattias Holm, marketing manager at Ballograf.
Volvo Cars and Stena Recycling
Recycled plastic bumpers from cars become new high-quality plastic material for license plate holders through the cross-sector project “The Sign”. The project includes leading players such as Volvo Cars, Motorbranschens Riksförbund, Jönköpings Bildemontering, If skadeförsäkring, RISE, Formac, Stena Recycling and Mobility Sweden.
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Three trends within waste plastic recycling
Protecting material values
Some plastics can be as expensive as precious metals to purchase in manufacturing. It is important to preserve valuable material properties. Through our service, recycling processes and sales opportunities, we make sure to reduce your loss of material value. This is key to support a circular economy.
More use of recycled plastics
Recycled plastics have a significantly lower carbon footprint than plastics made from virgin fossil materials. Many companies have set ambitious targets for increasing the use of recycled plastics in their products. Stena Recycling produces large quantities of recycled plastic. Contact us and we can explore your potential.
From waste to circular products
More and more companies are setting high ambitions and targets for their use of recycled material. Sustainable plastics management has an important role to play. With our services, recycling process expertise, you get support to move plastics up the waste hierarchy, from incineration to recycling.
Want to make your business more circular?
Stena Circular Consulting’s services cover key aspects of the circular economy, specializing in circular product design, zero waste initiatives, circular system design, and integrating circularity into clients’ strategies while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Stena Recycling’s industry solutions
At Stena Recycling, we provide sustainable solutions for tens of thousands of customers across a wide range of industries – from retail, manufacturing and public sector to processing, infrastructure, automotive and end-of-life vehicles.
