Environment
Keeping material in the loop
The environmental case for this trade is simple: plastic that goes back into production is plastic that did not go to landfill or an incinerator. The figures below are based on the throughput of our founders' Türkiye operations, and we publish the method alongside them.
The figures below cover all material handled since 1 January 2026. Most of that volume is handled by our founders' three-decade-old recycling operations in Türkiye; Cyclomer Ltd's own shipments are part of this total and are shown separately below.
4,928 t
Material kept in the loop
year to date, since 1 January 2026
7,084 t
CO₂e avoided
versus virgin production, at published factors
234
Containers
at ~21 t average payload
1,850 t
Of which Cyclomer Ltd
recorded shipments, UK corridor
How these numbers are calculated
These are arithmetic, not estimates, and anyone can recompute them. We take the containers handled since 1 January 2026 — 234 to date — and divide by the time elapsed to get the weekly average the counter runs at. Each container carries roughly 21 tonnes, and that tonnage is multiplied by an emission factor weighted to the mix of material handled. The counter advances every hour for that reason: it reflects elapsed time at a measured rate, not a random increment.
tonnes handled = 7.9 containers/week × 21 t × weeks since 1 January 2026
CO₂e avoided = tonnes handled × 1.44 t CO₂e per tonne (weighted to the material mix)
The factors are taken from the low end of published ranges — we would rather under-count than overstate.
Factor sources
- WRAP — carbon impact of recycling plastics vs virgin production
- Plastics Europe — eco-profiles for polymer production
- UK Government GHG conversion factors for company reporting
If you want to check a figure, we will happily walk you through the method and the shipment records behind it. An environmental claim should stand up to the same scrutiny as an Annex VII.
How we operate
Licensed outlets only
Every consignee's environmental permit and remaining import quota is verified before contract. If we cannot establish where material ends up, we do not ship it — every enforcement case that damaged this industry's name began with that step being skipped.
Single grade, clean loads
Mixed, contaminated loads cannot be sorted at destination and become waste again. We buy single-polymer, sorted material only — that is what photo grading is for. A clean load means both a better price and material that genuinely gets recycled.
Sea freight first
Container shipping emits far less per tonne-kilometre than road haulage. We route the corridor by sea as standard and use road only for the first and last mile between site and port.
Our targets
Commitments, not achievementsThese are commitments we have made, not results we have banked. We keep the distinction deliberate.
- 2027Every shipment carries a carbon figure on its documentation pack, calculated on the method published on this page.
- 2028Sea freight only on the UK–Türkiye corridor for all contracted volumes, with road used solely for first and last mile.
- 2030Measured and reported Scope 1 and 2 emissions for our own operations, published annually alongside these figures.
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Know where your material goes
Every consignment comes with an Annex VII, a photographic loading report and arrival confirmation. The environmental claim rests on those same documents.