Our Plasterboard Recycling Service

We want to make it quick and easy for contractors to recycle with us. Our Plasterboard Recycling Service (PRS) is based on the principles of simplicity and reliability, reducing the time and cost of waste management – making it easy to fulfil your business’ environmental obligations, protect our environment and leave a positive legacy.

Your waste can be collected in skips, bags or pallets

Simply register your site with us, and our dedicated PRS Customer Service team will help organise the delivery of skips or bags to house your waste. When you are ready for us to collect your waste, get in touch with our team, and they will arrange collection for you.

How to register your site

If you don’t have an account with us, please contact the PRS Customer Service team on 0800 633 5040 or email us at [email protected].

Our team will send you everything you need to start the registration process, set up your new accounts, and answer questions about our Plasterboard Recycling Service.

Benefits

Our Plasterboard Recycling Service provides major benefits to you. It helps you to manage site waste more effectively and improves site safety. Our service converts your plasterboard waste into recycled gypsum, which is used for the production of new plasterboards.

It provides comprehensive data to enable you to track waste, project by project, and identify and address waste hot spots.

It is a valuable tool, helping you drive down the cost of waste management, ease the implementation of your statutory environmental obligations, and improve your business.

What can we recycle?

We’re able to accept new build waste and scrap from new products only.

What we can accept

  • British Gypsum plasterboard, including Gyproc® Habito, duplex grade1 board and thermal laminates1
  • British Gypsum ceiling products, including Gyprex, Gyptone and Rigitone
  • Rigidur H®
  • Okarno® Decorative Plaster Mouldings (DPM) and Cove
  • All Thistle plaster except Thistle DriCoat
  • Gyproc DriWall Adhesive

What we can’t accept

  • Jointing materials
  • Paper
  • Timber
  • Metal
  • Packaging
  • General site rubbish
  • Demolition / stripout board / plaster

For additional information about our Plasterboard Recycling Service, please download our brochure.

1Offcuts only. Full bags of plaster only.