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The pickup of the material is free for our customers! Only with their consent does it proceed to collection by Teufelberger.

The collection takes place from a minimum quantity of 1 ton. However, we recommend having as much material as possible collected at once to make the process more efficient.

The material must be sorted by type (PP or PET) and free from foreign substances. At better.collect, there are two collection/compression methods to choose from:

Option 1: Shredded snippets collected in Big-Bags.
Option 2: Compressed straps collected in bags.

In most cases, PET bands are green or black, while PP bands are white or blue. However, there are also colorful PET bands or black PP strapping bands. A simple test to distinguish them is the sink-float test: PET bands sink, while PP bands float on water.

You have two options:
You can use your own Big-Bags that you already have. We are also happy to provide reusable BigBags for the shredded straps free of charge.

We are currently working on also providing suitable sacks for the compressed straps.

Sorting packaging material by type not only saves money and resources but also significantly facilitates the processing. Material that is collected sorted by type from the outset does not need to be separated later, which is usually more time-consuming and costly. Particularly in the plastics sector, different types of plastics must be collected separately as mixtures can cause problems in the manufacturing process.

Bundling loose strapping is laborious, time-consuming, and also uses a lot of storage space — on the other hand, shredding with a chopper or press and sorting into Big-Bags saves money, resources, and space.

The pickup occurs depending on the country and individual agreement. Generally, we bundle the pickups to make the process efficient.

Depending on the country, the registration for pickup is either with your Teufelberger contact for a direct pickup or with our partners, such as in Germany with PreZero. The details of better.collect are explained in detail in a personal meeting.

After collecting the material, it is processed by our partner into PET or PP raw material. This external processing step is necessary to control the quality of the raw material. The processing steps include:

Preliminary crushing
Density separation
Friction cleaning
Drying if necessary
Further crushing

Quality assurance begins with the first processing step at our recycling partner. There, possible foreign substances are sorted out, the material is superficially cleaned, and processed into ground material. Once the material arrives at Teufelberger as raw material, it is checked against the requirements and raw material specifications, and then processed.

The ground strap material is used as a replacement for bottle ground material, with which we close the loop of the strapping bands and ensure that strapping becomes strapping again – “Strap to Strap".