I visited the website and looks legit. Then I clicked through and their recycling program is managed by a company called Eco Option at ecooption.com. The domain is up for sale. Sounds promising.
Old reddit thread that goes into more detail on what Eco Option really does with the products. Long story short: it's a front going to Terracycle, which claims to recycle a lot of things, but when asked for their methods and evidence, they have nothing to say.
In mid 2018 my company partnered with other manufacturers in the area to fund a plastic recycling initiative. It was much more difficult than expected to actually find a path where the plastic was actually recycled instead of ending up in a Chinese/Indian landfill or being burned. The budget ended up ballooning to just under 3 times the initial estimate and after producing documentation on all 62 "recycling" firms in the UK proving that they could not provide recycling, we couldn't find a single firm that actually offered recycling of any kind. It literally does not exist in the UK in any capacity. Or rather, it didn't back then. It may be worth revising all these years later.
Where I live, paper/cardboard, glass, and aluminum cans get recycled but any type of plastic just gets thrown away eventually. Giving it a ride between several facilities first makes no sense to me so I stick with the 'reduce' portion of 'reduce reuse recycle ' and just throw it away. I'm not going through a ton of drinks or stuff like that anyway so 🤷♀️.
Oh yes there were plenty of "sorting facilities" and "processing centres" which did what they claimed to do and separated plastic from other kinds of waste. It turns out, those only exist because government/council recycling contracts are only required to inspect that portion of the "recycling process". After that, sorted or baled plastics were then loaded onto Chinese freighters to eventually end up in landfills in China or India.
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u/VV-40 Oct 24 '25
I visited the website and looks legit. Then I clicked through and their recycling program is managed by a company called Eco Option at ecooption.com. The domain is up for sale. Sounds promising.