PET Bottle Bales
We buy baled post-consumer PET bottles: clear/light-blue bales for the premium hot-wash market and mixed-colour bales — feeding Türkiye's large bottle-to-bottle and fibre capacity.
Türkiye runs some of Europe's largest PET hot-wash and bottle-to-bottle lines, and they run on baled bottles. We buy clear/light-blue and mixed-colour PET bales from MRFs, waste companies and deposit-return operators across the UK, with label and cap tolerances written into the acceptance spec. Bales ship as B3011 green-list material on a full Annex VII trail to consignees whose licence and quota we verify before contract. With UK DRS collection scaling up, clean bottle streams are growing — we contract forward against that growth.
Technical specification
| Polymer | PET bottle grade | |
|---|---|---|
| Grading | Clear/light-blue vs mixed colour | |
| Labels | Tolerance per grade | |
| Caps | On, tolerated (PP/PE) | |
| Bale weight | 250–450 | kg |
| Load size | ≈ 10–12 t per 40' |
Compliance & documentation
- Waste / product classification
- Green-list waste under B3011: sorted PET bottles for recycling, shipped on Annex VII under the Article 18 procedure.
- Certification chain
- EA registered waste carrier/broker/dealer (upper tier); consignee licence and quota verified before contract.
- Documentation supplied
- Annex VII form signed by all parties, retained 3 years
- Contract with the licensed Turkish consignee
- Waste transfer note at UK collection
- Photographic loading report per container
- Türkiye import notes
- Türkiye's bottle-to-bottle capacity keeps demand for clear bales structurally strong; shipments scheduled against consignee quota.
Grades & variants
| Clear / Light-Blue Bales | Mixed Colour Bales | |
|---|---|---|
| Clear/light-blue | ≥ 95 % | — |
| Green/amber | ≤ 5 % | — |
| Full-sleeve bottles | ≤ 5 % | — |
| Contamination | ≤ 2 % | ≤ 3 % |
| Bale weight | 250–450 kg | 250–450 kg |
| PET bottles | — | ≥ 95 % |
| Colour mix | — | Unrestricted |
Clear / Light-Blue Bales
Premium hot-wash feed · Baled
≥95% clear and light-blue bottles; the premium feed for hot-wash flake and bottle-to-bottle.
Packaging & load
| Storage | Dry, off the ground | |
|---|---|---|
| Load | ≈ 10–12 t per 40' |
Not accepted
- PVC bottles and containers
- PET trays and thermoforms
- Oil and chemical bottles
- Wet or soiled bales
Mixed Colour Bales
Fibre feed · Baled
All-colour PET bottles; priced to the fibre and coloured-application market.
Packaging & load
| Storage | Dry, off the ground | |
|---|---|---|
| Load | ≈ 10–12 t per 40' |
Not accepted
- PVC bottles
- PET trays and thermoforms
- Non-bottle rigids
- Wet bales
Applications & end markets
Where UK bottles go:
- Hot-washed flake — clear feeding sheet and bottle-to-bottle
- Food-grade rPET after approved super-clean processing
- Polyester fibre (mixed-colour bales)
- Strapping and non-food sheet
Quality & inspection
- 01
Photo grading with an opened-bale shot; offer references the supported grade.
- 02
First-collection verification bale by bale.
- 03
Documented downgrade process — photographs before price talk.
- 04
Export loading photographed; report to supplier and consignee.
- 05
Arrival weighbridge reconciliation closes each file.
