BOSS Technology

We turn hard-to-recycle plastic into high-purity recycled materials at scale.

Impact Recycling offers three commercial routes for hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste plastic streams: 

COMMERCIAL PATHS

Three ways to work with Impact Recycling.

Whether you're looking to recycle plastic, buy recycled materials, or license our BOSS technology, we offer a route to partnership.

Our Recycling Plants

Over the past decade, Impact Recycling has adapted and engineered our patented BOSS technology to process a wide range of post-consumer waste plastic streams. Our density-separation process sorts mixed waste plastic that conventional recycling cannot handle, recovering clean polymer streams ready for reprocessing. Today, our UK facilities in Newcastle, Durham and Glasgow process post-consumer household collections of:

  • Mixed rigid plastics
  • Mixed flexible plastics
  • Medical plastics

producing high-quality recycled PP, PE, LDPE, and HIPS/ABS at commercial scale.

As incineration costs rise and export restrictions tighten, we offer waste generators a reliable UK-based alternative — taking on the feedstock and handling the full recycling process and full reporting for waste obligation compliance.

Recycled Products

Impact Recycling produces high-spec recycled: high density polyethylene (rHDPE),low density polyethylene (rLDPE) and polypropylene (rPP) polymers from post-consumer waste plastic feedstock for use in injection moulding, blow moulding and extrusion applications.  We tailor the melt flow rate (MFR) to the requirements of each customer's manufacturing process using PRE, our proprietary additive that regulates MFR under specific pressure and temperature conditions — delivering consistent quality and performance from batch to batch. We also produce regrinds in PP, HDPE, LDPE and HIPS/ABS.

  • Mechanically recycled with a significantly lower carbon footprint than virgin polymer production
  • Full traceability and chain-of-custody documentation from feedstock to finished material
  • Reliable, consistent supply — sourced from our own UK processing facilities

License BOSS Technology

We license our patented BOSS technology to recycling partners, delivering the complete solution from plant design, engineering, procurement and construction through to commissioning, operator training, operational know-how and offtake sales development.  This is a proven model, demonstrated through our partnership with Syklo in Finland, where a 50,000 tonne per year waste plastics recycling facility commenced operations in  July 2026. The facility in Hyvinkää takes in household collections of mixed rigid and mixed flexible post-consumer waste plastic.   For chemical recycling operators, BOSS technology provides a turnkey front-end solution — sorting and separating mixed flexible and rigid waste plastic into clean, consistent polymer streams ready for chemical processing. We work with several chemical recyclers utilising this application, tailoring front-end sorting solutions to their specific feedstock needs.

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.

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 uses water-based density separation — a colour-agnostic process that handles black and dark material the same way as any other feedstock.

Water-based separation

BOSS applies water-based density separation tuned to the specific stream — polymer behaviour, output quality targets and evidence requirements for downstream use are scoped against the actual feedstock.

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 recycling, recycled products and licensing.

Affiliation ecosystem

Embedded in the plastics circularity landscape.

Impact Recycling works within a network of industry bodies, funding programmes, and circularity partnerships.

British Plastics Federation (BPF)
Dunia Designs
Ecosurety
Impact Solutions
Innovate UK
Syklo
Nestlé
Precious Plastic
RECOUP
WRAP
Zero Waste Scotland
LG Chem
Plastics Recyclers Europe
Plug and Play
Horizon 2020 (EU)
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)
UK Circular Plastics Network (UKCPN)
National Physical Laboratory (UK)
The UK Plastics Pact
Alliance to End Plastic Waste

Start the conversation

Explore whether BOSS fits your next plastics processing challenge.

Speak to Impact Recycling about recycling partnerships, recycled products, or licensing.

Our Recycling Plants

Our plants offer a UK recycling route for all post-consumer mixed waste plastic feedstock.

A wave of new regulation is creating growing pressure to find a credible, auditable UK-based recycling route for mixed post-consumer plastic streams. This includes Simpler Recycling (UK, 2027), the Plastic Packaging Tax, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reforms, the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and new EU export restrictions on waste plastic to non-OECD countries from late 2026 — which are closing off traditional export routes for UK waste plastic.

Recycled Products

Recycled PP and PE tailored to specific melt flow rate and colour.

The Plastic Packaging Tax and ESG commitments mean buyers need PCR they can evidence, a certificate with a chain of custody. We provide a load-by-load record built for compliance reporting frameworks — and priced to compete with market alternatives.

License BOSS Technology

From plant design to commercial operation — a proven recycling solution.

Processors deploy proven BOSS technology under licence at their own site. You retain operational control; Impact provides the technology, evidence pathways and ongoing support — so you add a commercially viable separation route without a greenfield build or years of in-house development.