Stretch Film
is one of the most common packaging materials in the world. Suppose you have a business that packages physical products, and you transport these items by truck. In that case, chances are you are using pallet wrap.
What Is Pallet Wrap?
Pallet wrap (also known as stretch wrap, stretch film, or stretch wrap film) is a highly elastic packaging film made from various plastic formulations. Pallet wrap tightly and safely secures and contains stacks of palleted products for transportation and storage.
Can You Recycle Pallet Wrap?
The short answer is yes.
Hanpak produce Stretch film by 100% LLDPE virgin material, so they’re completely recyclable.
Before you toss your LLDPE pallet wrap in a single-stream recycling bin, you will want to contact your recycling company to ask if they have the proper infrastructure to recycle this material, as many single-stream and municipal recycling centers do not.
However, suppose your local recycling center does not recycle this material. In that case, there is still hope for your pallet wrap recycling dreams.
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Various third-party pallet wrap recycling companies will collect properly sorted and baled used and waste pallet wrap. And, if you have enough volume of film, many of these recyclers will pay you for the used and waste film…
Each pallet wrap recycling company will have different minimums of properly collected and balled wrap to qualify your business for a pick-up and a paycheck.
You will want to speak directly with your pallet wrap recycling vendor to determine those minimums.