Soft Plastic Recycling and Sack Collection for your Business

Recycling responsibly and reusing your plastics has never been so important. Alongside the growing concern for our planet comes a greater need for companies to ensure they are doing everything possible to help.

It's never been more important to recycle plastic bags and all sorts of flexible plastics and First Mile's business waste services make the process easy.

Around 1 trillion plastic bags are used around the world every year, while the oil it takes to make just one of them could power a car for 11 metres.

With this in mind, is it time that retail, catering or commercial businesses start to recycle flexible plastic with a conscientious company?

Business Recycling works in the same way as Business Waste; order sacks or bins, we deliver the next day and collect on a schedule to suit.

First Mile offers business waste recycling as well as business recycling collection across London and the UK. By law, companies need to demonstrate they are recycling waste where it is economical and practical.

First Mile helps businesses do that, by providing over 30 low-cost business waste and business recycling services that will save money and the planet.

As one of the leading waste management companies in London, Birmingham and the UK, First Mile has already helped over 30,000 businesses to reduce their carbon impact with our range of recycling services - with over 200 new businesses signing up each week.

By choosing First Mile, you’ll benefit from a low cost, reliable service, a 24/7 helpdesk, and free monthly reporting. You can view our accreditations above and our certificates and insurances here.

The average carton is made up of at least three layered materials: 75% paperboard (from wood), 21% polyethylene (a type of plastic) and 4% aluminium (on long-life or aseptic packages only). It's this unique combination that makes carton packaging safe and efficient to store food and drinks, but it also means that recycling cartons require a very special process.

After collection, cartons are taken to a specialist facility where they're soaked into water to separate the paperboard fibres. These are then dried and recycled into new paper products. The recovered plastic and aluminium layers are separated and turned into garden furniture, industrial products and building materials.

The process of recycling cartons isn't the easiest, but it is possible. Still, worldwide, less than 20% of cartons packaging is recycled - we can and must do better. First Mile recycles cartons in the UK, reducing the carbon footprint necessary and ensuring that nothing ends up in a landfill.