The Spontex® Disposable Gloves Recycling Scheme
Recycle your household disposable gloves through this scheme
- Participating locations
- 500
- Available locations
- 0
- Waste recycled
- 713,055
The UK's first household disposable gloves recycling scheme
Spontex® have partnered with TerraCycle® to offer a simple and free recycling scheme to make your household disposable gloves recyclable. The scheme also offers the opportunity for programme participants to fundraise for their favourite school or charity.
To learn more, please take a look at the "How It Works" section further down the page.
Drop-off locations
How it works
There are 2 different ways to participate in this scheme:
1) Drop off your household disposable gloves at your nearest public drop-off location
Find your nearest public drop-off location on the interactive map above and drop off your gloves.
2) Apply to set up a public drop-off location
If there are no public drop-off locations near you, you can set-up your own. However please be aware that the scheme is currently full so you will be placed on a waiting list and only added to the map if the scheme has added new locations and if you meet the necessary requirements.
If you are an existing member of the scheme who currently collects privately but would like to set up your own public drop-off location, you can set one up somewhere accessible to members of the public.
In both cases, if you would like to proceed, please simply follow the steps below:
- Create a TerraCycle® account (doesn't apply for existing members of the scheme)
- Find a public place to host your collection (with the prior consent of the person in charge of the place)
- Fill out this form to finalise your request
To learn more about what public drop-off locations are and what it involves to set up one, please click here.
Note: we do not provide collection boxes for this scheme - we would ask that you reuse any clean and sturdy cardboard box.
Once you are a member of the scheme (by setting up a public drop-off location) and when you are ready to send a shipment, please follow these steps:
What you can recycle in this programme
We accept all brands of household disposable gloves that have been purchased for use at home only (for example, cleaning, gardening or beauty). Please check out our Accepted Waste Poster below for more details.
For any disposable gloves that have been bought for business use or used in a professional context, find the appropriate recycling solution on our Zero Waste Box™ website here.
What happens to this waste
Once collected, your disposable gloves are cleaned and ground down into a fine powder to make new recycled products. Click here to learn more about the recycling process.
Rewards
This scheme offers 50 TerraCycle® points for each kilogram of disposable gloves sent. However, the points will only be awarded if the parcel reaches the minimum weight of 8 kilograms.
For example:
5 kilograms = 0 TerraCycle® points
8 kilograms = 400 TerraCycle® points
9.5 kilograms = 475 TerraCycle® points
Please note that TerraCycle® points are credited to the accounts of scheme members as a reward for their collection efforts. The number of points given is determined by the weight of the parcel. 1 TerraCycle® point is worth 1 penny.
Once credited, the points can be redeemed into financial donations to the charity or school chosen by the owner of the points. The points must be redeemed on the TerraCycle® website.
Resources
As a leading European cleaning tools brand, we believe that we can no longer design a great product unless we take into account its environmental footprint and constantly strive to reduce its environmental impact year after year. When we launch disposable products to meet consumer needs, we believe that we must give these products a second life and find them a new purpose. Through our partnership with TerraCycle®, we’re taking responsibility and committing to identifying new innovative solutions. Join us in our mission to keep disposable gloves out of landfill. Learn more about Spontex®.
