Flexible plastic is plastic in thin film form that bends and crumples easily: carry bags, milk pouches, wrappers, sachets, courier bags and pallet wrap. It is mostly LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE film and polypropylene film.
Flexibles make up a large share of household plastic waste in India, yet they are the least collected. They are light, so a waste picker earns little per kilogram, and they are often dirty or multilayered. Recycling them needs dedicated collection, careful sortation and thorough washing. Lucro specialises in this difficult stream, paying for flexible plastic at its collection centres and recycling it into rLDPE granules for new film and packaging.
