Plastics for recycling come from two main sources: post consumer plastics and post industrial
plastics. Post consumer plastics are those which have already been used by people. These
are the plastics collected in plastics recycling bins and at domestic roadside collections. Post
industrial plastics, on the other hand, are rejects from industry — offcuts, damaged batches
etc. These plastics are collected either directly from the industry or collected by the local
council, squashed into bales and sold to a recycler.