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Post-industrial plastics by resin (PET, HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PP, PS), production purge, trim and off-spec product, and obsolete or recalled inventory. If it comes off a line in volume, we can usually recover value from it. What cannot be recycled can be securely destroyed with full documentation.
Disposal is a cost centre; recovery is a revenue line. Clean, sorted industrial plastics qualify for rebates, and consistent volumes earn consistent pricing. Many of our manufacturing partners fund their entire waste program from the scrap they used to pay to throw away.
Target Recycling is ISO:14001 certified and registered under the Government of Canada Controlled Goods Program. For sensitive or branded materials, our secured destruction service provides certificates of destruction, and our waste audits support Ontario O. Reg. 102/94 requirements.
Gaylords, super sacks, compactors, or bins, placed where your lines actually produce scrap, with scheduled pickups that match your production cadence. One vendor, one point of contact, one audit trail. Explore plastic recycling solutions, secured destruction, or toll grinding and pelletizing.
Industrial recycling is the recovery of what a plant produces as a by-product of making something else: scrap, purge, trim, off-spec runs, packaging that came in with raw materials, and inventory that will never ship. It is post-industrial material, and it behaves differently from the plastic in a household blue box. It arrives clean, sorted by the process that made it, and in consistent grades, which is why factory scrap recycles at rates consumer plastic never reaches, and why it is worth paying for.
What we are not is a hauler. If you need a bin for lunchroom waste, a waste hauler is the right call. If you need the purge, trim and rejected totes that go to landfill every month turned into a rebate and a diversion number, that is us. Offices, warehouses and retail sites are a different program: see commercial and office recycling.
| Material | Typical form | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| HDPE | Drums, pails, crates and totes, caps, purge, blow-moulding rejects | Rebate on clean, sorted loads. Natural grades recover best; separating natural from coloured is the highest-return standard to set. |
| Polypropylene (PP) | Sprue, runners, startup shots, colour-change purge, woven bags, totes | Rebate on clean, sorted loads. |
| PET | Preforms, bottle rejects, sheet and thermoform trim | Rebate on clean loads. Keep PET and PVC apart at the line; a small amount of PVC downgrades a PET load. |
| LDPE and film | Stretch wrap, shrink wrap, bags, liners from receiving and distribution | Value depends on cleanliness and bale weight. One baling standard across sites makes the difference. |
| Polystyrene (PS) | Rigid PS and HIPS trim, rejected parts | Volume that is marginal at one plant works across a network; consolidated pickups. |
| PVC | Profiles, sheet and pipe offcuts | Tell us the grade and volume and we will confirm. |
| Mixed or contaminated loads | Co-mingled resins, material with residue or metal | Graded lowest. Sorting upstream is the fastest way to lift the value, and a waste audit shows where. |
| Obsolete, branded or recalled product | Finished goods, packaging, parts | Certified destruction with a certificate on every job; recovered plastic recycled afterwards. |
One plastic moulder we work with was paying $18,200 a year to send its scrap to landfill: $225 a lift for two lifts a month ($5,400 a year), plus $0.04 per lb in landfill fees on 320,000 lb a year ($12,800). On a Target program the same 320,000 lb is collected with no transport fees and earns a rebate of $0.07 per lb, $22,400 a year back to the plant. That is a $40,600 swing every year, and the scrap now counts as diverted rather than landfilled.
Your numbers depend on resin, volume and contamination, which is why the free on-site visit comes first: it produces the actual figures for your plant rather than a brochure estimate.
Multi-site manufacturers rarely have a recycling problem. They have a consistency problem: a different vendor at each plant, different specs, different paperwork, and a corporate diversion figure nobody can reconcile in December. We run one program across your Ontario locations, with a single point of contact and the same specs and reporting at every site, so the number that reaches head office is built the same way everywhere. Adding a plant is a scheduling change rather than a new procurement cycle.
Ontario Regulation 102/94 requires designated establishments, including larger manufacturing plants, to complete waste audits and maintain a waste reduction work plan. Our waste audits and diversion planning service produces the audit and the plan, and the recycling program then generates the evidence behind it: documented weights and destinations on every load, consistent across sites, ready for an ESG disclosure or a corporate landfill-free target as much as for the regulator.
Plastic is the largest stream for most of the plants we work with, and each resin has its own page: HDPE, polypropylene, PET, LDPE and film and polystyrene, all under our industrial plastic recycling solutions.
Why Choose Target Recycling?
With 27 years of proven expertise, we handle the waste streams factories actually produce: post-industrial plastics by resin, purge, off-spec product, and obsolete inventory. One vendor, one audit trail, from scheduled pickups to certificates of destruction.
Rebates that turn plastic scrap into revenue, trusted by 500+ Canadian businesses.
ISO:14001 certified for compliance and environmental responsibility.
Certificates of destruction and O. Reg. 102/94 audit support for full compliance.
It is the recovery of manufacturing byproducts before they ever reach a consumer: scrap, purge, trim, off-spec runs, and obsolete inventory. We collect these streams by resin (PET, HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PP, PS), process them at our Ajax facility, and return them to the supply chain as regrind or pellets.
Yes. Clean, sorted post-industrial plastics often qualify for rebates. Volumes, resin type, and contamination determine pricing, and a free on-site visit gives you exact numbers.
We primarily serve medium-to-large industrial operations, but programs are tailored: gaylords, super sacks, or compactor pickups on a schedule that matches your production. Contact us to discuss your volumes.
Industrial recycling handles production by-products: scrap, purge, trim, off-spec runs and obsolete inventory from a plant. Commercial recycling covers what offices, warehouses and retail sites generate, mostly cardboard, film and packaging from receiving. Both run under the same ISO 14001 program at Target Recycling; a site with both gets one contract and one audit trail.
Yes, and it is how our larger clients run. One program, one point of contact, and the same specs and reporting at every Ontario location, so the corporate diversion number is built the same way at each site. Adding a plant is a scheduling change, not a new sourcing exercise.
It is documented either way. Branded, obsolete or recalled product goes through certified secured destruction with a certificate of destruction on every job, and whatever plastic is recovered from it is recycled afterwards. Material with no recovery route is disposed of with the weight and destination recorded, so it still reconciles in your diversion report.
It depends on resin, volume and contamination. In one real example, a plastic moulder was paying $18,200 a year to send 320,000 lb of scrap to landfill: $225 a lift for two lifts a month, plus $0.04 per lb in landfill fees. With Target Recycling there are no transport fees and the plant earns a $0.07 per lb rebate, $22,400 a year. That is a $40,600 swing every year. A free on-site visit puts your own numbers on it.
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