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BOSS plastic separation technology.

Impact Recycling offers three commercial routes for hard-to-sort post-consumer plastic streams: Waste Offtake, Licence & Deploy, and Processed Material Supply.

Commercial paths

Three ways to work with Impact Recycling.

Each route suits a different relationship to plastic waste — whether you generate it, process it, or need to buy it back as recovered material.

01

Waste Offtake

Local authorities and waste management firms sell mixed post-consumer plastic directly to Impact Recycling — an alternative to incineration or offshore export. Impact takes on the feedstock, processes it through BOSS, and handles the material outcome.

  • No capital outlay required from the waste generator
  • Diverts hard-to-sort streams from energy recovery or export into UK-based processing

02

Licence & Deploy

Processors deploy certified BOSS technology under licence at their own site. This is Impact's most commercially scalable route — and its most profitable.

  • Site evaluation scoped to existing material flow and infrastructure
  • Processor retains operational control; Impact provides technology and ongoing support

03

Processed Material Supply

Buyers access BOSS-separated recycled plastic with documented chain of custody — UK-processed PCR priced competitively against imported alternatives.

  • Quality-graded output with traceable separation evidence
  • Commercially viable relative to virgin plastic import benchmarks

The problem

Post-consumer plastics still contain valuable streams that conventional sorting can miss.

Mixed rigid plastics, black and dark material, overlapping density profiles and contaminated feedstock are routinely sent to energy recovery or export — not because the material has no value, but because standard sorting technology cannot cleanly separate it.

Hard-to-sort feedstock

Mixed post-consumer streams can contain PE, PP, flexible and rigid formats, contaminants and material histories that need technical characterisation before claims are made.

Black and dark plastics

Conventional optical sorting can struggle with black or dark plastics depending on material, equipment and presentation. BOSS keeps the colour-agnostic separation concept, without unsourced percentages.

Water-based separation

The core technical language remains: water-based density separation, tuned around material behaviour, output quality and evidence needed for downstream use.

Technical feature

Built around material evidence buyers can use.

BOSS is positioned as a licensable separation technology for mixed plastic streams. Each deployment conversation should connect feedstock, target polymer output, operating context and the evidence route needed for buyer reporting.

  • Characterise the input material before setting claims.
  • Agree output quality targets and validation method up front.
  • Connect QA, LCA and commercial evidence before publishing outcomes.

Quick answers

What Impact Recycling is built to answer.

Concise answers for processors, brands and circularity teams assessing whether BOSS is relevant to their waste stream or recovered-material requirement.

Impact Recycling develops BOSS plastic separation technology for processors, brands and material partners working with hard-to-sort post-consumer plastic streams. The company focuses on waste offtake, licensed technology deployment and recovered material supply.

Affiliation ecosystem

Embedded in the plastics circularity landscape.

Impact Recycling works within a network of industry bodies, funding programmes, and circularity partnerships — connecting technology deployment to the broader UK and European plastics recovery ecosystem.

British Plastics Federation (BPF)
Dunia Designs
Ecosurety
Impact Solutions
Innovate UK
Nestlé
Precious Plastic
RECOUP
WRAP
Zero Waste Scotland
Plastics Recyclers Europe
Plug and Play
Horizon 2020 (EU)
UK Circular Plastics Network (UKCPN)
The UK Plastics Pact
Alliance to End Plastic Waste