BOSS Technology
TO VALIDATEImpact Recycling offers three commercial routes for hard-to-sort post-consumer plastic streams: Waste Offtake, Licence & Deploy, and Processed Material Supply.
Commercial paths
Each route suits a different relationship to plastic waste — whether you generate it, process it, or need to buy it back as recovered material.
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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.
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Processors deploy certified BOSS technology under licence at their own site. This is Impact's most commercially scalable route — and its most profitable.
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Buyers access BOSS-separated recycled plastic with documented chain of custody — UK-processed PCR priced competitively against imported alternatives.
The problem
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.
Mixed post-consumer streams can contain PE, PP, flexible and rigid formats, contaminants and material histories that need technical characterisation before claims are made.
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.
The core technical language remains: water-based density separation, tuned around material behaviour, output quality and evidence needed for downstream use.
Technical feature
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.
Quick answers
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.
BOSS targets mixed plastic streams that are difficult to separate consistently through conventional sorting alone, including streams affected by colour, contamination, format and overlapping material characteristics. Public performance claims should be validated against the specific feedstock and deployment.
The site presents three commercial routes: Waste Offtake for suitable input streams, Licence & Deploy for processors evaluating BOSS technology, and Processed Material Supply for buyers exploring recovered material options.
Affiliation ecosystem
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.
News
Technology developments, industry partnerships, and commentary on the plastics circularity landscape from the Impact Recycling team.
Architectural renderings reveal the planned layout of the Syklo facility in Hyvinkää, Finland — the largest plastic recycling plant in the country, processing 50,000 tonnes annually.
Circular economy company Syklo is building the largest plastic recycling plant in Finland using Impact Recycling's BOSS technology — a 50,000 tonne per year facility in Hyvinkää that increases Finland's recycling capacity by up to 50%.
Impact Recycling secures £7 million in funding from Nestlé UK & Ireland and Innovate UK to build a commercial-scale BOSS 2D facility targeting flexible plastic packaging.
Start the conversation
Speak to Impact Recycling about licensed deployment, offtake routes, or circularity partnerships.
