What Pro Environmental does

Pro Environmental is a United Kingdom-based recycling company that operates in the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle recycling segment of the post-consumer plastic waste value chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Kent, the company is a private for-profit entity employing between 11 and 50 staff. Co-founder Ryan Burley serves as CEO and is the only identified member of the management team in the available data.

The company's stated functional focus is the provision of PET bottle recycling services. No further technical information is available regarding processing technology, plant capacity, sorting or reprocessing methods, downstream offtake partners, feedstock sourcing arrangements, or facility footprint. There are no disclosed proprietary technologies, patents, trademarks, certifications, or compliance credentials in the input data, and no products, product lines, or technology stack details are characterized beyond the high-level category.

The company's revenue model, pricing structure, go-to-market approach, distribution channels, and customer segmentation are not disclosed. There is no information on named customers, marketing channels, partnerships, integrations, or contract structures. The available data is sufficient only to establish the company's existence, sector, location, headcount band, and founding leadership; deeper investment-grade inferences on commercial mechanics, unit economics, defensibility, and growth profile are constrained by a material data gap, and additional diligence is required before any capital-allocation decision.

Name

Pro Environmental

Website

https://proenvironmentalltd.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pro Environmental is a UK-based PET bottle recycling company headquartered in Kent, founded in 2017. The firm operates with 11-50 employees under co-founder and CEO Ryan Burley, addressing post-consumer plastic bottle waste recovery in the United Kingdom.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plastic Recycling Services

NAICS

Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing (326)

akta.pro primary industry

Food-Grade & rPET/rHDPE Recycling (Decontamination/SSP, Bottle-to-Bottle) (EUAIAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH), Post-Consumer Plastic Collection & Sorting (MRF/PRF, Bale Supply) (EUAIAKAA)

Keywords

• PET bottle recycling
• Plastic recycling services
• Bottle collection services
• Recycled PET materials
• Waste management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Kent

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Core offering

Pro Environmental is a recycling company offering PET bottle recycling services. It collects and processes PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles as part of its waste recovery operations based in Kent, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2017 and operates with 11-50 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PET Bottle Recycling Collection and processing of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles for recycling, serving UK-based businesses and waste producers. The service supports clients' sustainability and landfill-diverting objectives.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• ALPLA: Global packaging manufacturer with growing in-house rPET and recycled-content packaging capability. Comparable as a downstream buyer of recycled PET resin and as an integrated competitor that can internalize PET recycling economics.
• Biffa: UK-listed integrated waste-management and recycling company with plastics-sorting capability. Competes in PET collection and reprocessing while also operating landfill, collections, and hazardous waste services.
• Viridor: One of the UK's largest recycling and waste-management companies (owned by KKR), with PET processing capability among many other waste streams. Comparable as a UK plastic-recycling competitor but operates at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• Indorama Ventures: Global PET and rPET producer operating one of the world's largest bottle-to-bottle rPET networks, including facilities in Europe. Sets the price and quality benchmark for food-grade rPET that Pro Environmental would compete against.
• Veolia UK: Global environmental services group with significant UK plastics-recycling operations including PET reprocessing. Competes with Pro Environmental for PET bale supply and downstream offtake, though Veolia's portfolio spans waste, water, and energy services.

Direct peers

• CarbonLite: US-based PET bottle-to-bottle recycler producing food-grade rPET pellet. Operates a similar process flow (bale receipt, wash, decontamination, SSP) to what Pro Environmental likely performs, making it a useful process and unit-economics comparable.
• Closed Loop Recycling: UK-based PET bottle-to-bottle recycler operating wash and decontamination lines producing food-grade rPET. Directly comparable to Pro Environmental on feedstock (post-consumer PET bottles), process, and UK customer base.

Emerging players

• MBA Polymers: Specialist recycler of engineering and post-consumer plastics from appliances and electronics, producing recycled resin grades. Comparable as a niche plastics-recycling operator using mechanical reprocessing to supply resin to converters.
• Plastic Energy: UK-headquartered chemical-recycling company using pyrolysis to convert mixed/contaminated plastics into oils for new plastic production. Comparable as a UK plastic-recycling innovator, though Plastic Energy operates further up the technology curve and uses a different recycling pathway.

Others

• Recoup: UK plastics-recycling charity and industry body providing data, certifications, and PCR-content verification. Not a direct competitor but a relevant ecosystem participant whose standards and accreditation pathways directly affect recyclers like Pro Environmental.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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