Have your cooling and freezing appliances collected and recycled

Trusted expertise in cooling and freezing appliance recycling

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Refrigerators, freezers, and other cooling appliances are widely used in offices, commercial kitchens, supermarkets, and industrial sites. Once they reach end-of-life, these units become a specific waste stream that includes valuable raw materials, but also harmful substances like refrigerants and insulation gases that require careful handling.

Does your organisation needs this service?
This waste stream is common for retailers upgrading stock, property managers clearing out buildings, food service businesses replacing equipment, and manufacturers or logistics firms dealing with returns or defective units.

Expert recycling and flexible collection
Proper treatment of refrigerators, freezers, and other temperature exchange equipment requires expert handling to ensure full depollution and regulatory compliance. At Renewi, we combine decades of experience with state-of-the-art technology to provide safe, sustainable recycling solutions you can trust. We offer both one-time collections and custom container solutions, making it easy to collect and recycle cooling appliances in a compliant and efficient way, whether you’re dealing with a single unit or a full batch.

How are cooling and freezing appliances recycled?

Our advanced technology is developed and rigorously tested in our demonstration plant, with continuous improvements from our dedicated team. We maintain complete control throughout every step of the recycling process:

• Sorting of appliances: domestic, professional, ammonia-based, and class 6 appliances (without blowing agents)
• Safe removal of oils and refrigerants
• Foam and blowing agent extraction using shredding, separation, and PU degassing
• Environmentally sound treatment of refrigerants and blowing agents

With four modern processing sites across Europe three specialised in processing cooling and freezing appliances and one site dedicated to recycling plastic flakes from these facilities, we have a combined capacity of nearly 100,000 tonnes annually.

Trusted buyer of WEEE plastic fractions

We are a reliable and compliant buyer of WEEE plastic fractions, supporting recyclers with sustainable end-of-life solutions. In addition to plastics from our own WEEE facilities, we partner with other recyclers handling electrical and electronic equipment.

We specialize in post-consumer plastics from fridges, cooling appliances and small domestic appliances, working closely with industry-leading recyclers, OEMs and collection schemes. Plastics sourced from fridge recycling plants and approved external suppliers are upgraded into high-quality, circular materials.

Looking for a trusted outlet for your plastic fractions? We provide compliant, efficient and sustainable recycling solutions for recyclers throughout Europe.

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