F BALL and Co has made it easier for flooring contractors to do their bit for the environment by further increasing the number of locations where contractors can deposit empty recyclable F Ball buckets and bottles for recycling, free of charge. The number of F Ball recycling points at wholesaler partners across the UK now stands at 40 and counting.

The expansion of the company’s scheme, first introduced in 2019, is a response to a positive reception from flooring contractors to the initial pilot, with bin-loads of empty containers that would have otherwise been destined for landfill being taken back for reprocessing.
Last year, 13 tonnes of plastic buckets, equating to 23,000 buckets, and 1,560kg of bottles (about 12,000), were collected and recycled through the scheme. F Ball plastic buckets and the company’s five and 20 litre plastic bottles used for liquids, primers and tackifiers can be recycled via the scheme, with much of the packaging itself manufactured from recycled materials.

Environmental savings
Flooring professionals are not just saving the Earth, but also saving money by using the
F Ball Recycling Scheme, with one contractor, Fineweave Carpets in Reading, cutting waste disposal costs by more than £8,000.

They have returned a total of 8,200 plastic bottles for reprocessing that would have otherwise been destined for landfill, equating to over 1,000kg of plastic. It is estimated that this would cost over £8,200 to dispose of through commercially available channels. Lee Withers, director of Fineweave Carpets, said: ‘We pride ourselves on doing what we can for the environment, and the F Ball Recycling Scheme gives us another opportunity to do this while also cutting our costs.’

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