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Sell us your plastic scrap, where the rules let it ship.

Dayatas Profab, a Malaysian resin company that sells ABS, PS and HIPS, is looking for suppliers of home appliance plastic, automotive plastic and crushed product in Europe, America, Japan and Korea. Malaysia admits such scrap only with a SIRIM approval, one polymer per lot, from Basel Convention parties or countries with an arrangement with Malaysia. EU rules ban plastic waste exports to non-OECD countries such as Malaysia from 21 November 2026.

A mound of incoming crushed plastic scrap in the yardIntake · own footage
Own footage: incoming crushed plastic scrap in the yard

INWhere Dayatas Profab is looking for suppliers, and the rule that decides

Rules checked

  1. 01EuropeEU countries: banned from 21 November 2026. EU rules end plastic waste exports to non-OECD countries [1], and Malaysia is not an OECD member [2]. In a European country outside the EU? Name it and ask.EU · from 21 Nov 2026
  2. 02AmericaBasel parties, or by agreement with Malaysia. Malaysia admits waste plastic only from Basel Convention parties or countries with an agreement or arrangement with it [3]. The United States is not a Basel party [4], so a US seller would need the agreement or arrangement route and should ask. Elsewhere in the Americas, name your country.SIRIM · US EPA
  3. 03JapanA Basel party. Japan is a Basel Convention party [5], so Malaysia's rules decide: a SIRIM approval, one polymer per lot, an inspection before shipment [3].Basel Convention
  4. 04KoreaA Basel party. Korea is a Basel Convention party too [5]; its producer-responsibility law covers scrapped electrical equipment and vehicles [6].Basel · IEA
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What plastic scrap is Dayatas Profab looking for?

Dayatas Profab looks for plastic scrap from three sources: home appliance products, automotive plastic and crushed product.

The company sells ABS resin, PS resin and HIPS resin to injection moulders, so scrap of those three polymers suits it best. Malaysia admits them only as clean, single-polymer lots [3], so offer each polymer as its own lot. Not sure what a material is? Say so in the offer, and ask what can be told from your photos and the markings on the parts.

Home appliance plastic scrap and automotive plastic scrap each have a page with the parts wanted and how to prepare them; crushed product is covered below. Words such as bale and regrind are defined in the plastic resin and recycling glossary.

Malaysia's rule

One polymer per lot, 99.5% or more.

Why it matters

ABS, PS and HIPS cannot be imported into Malaysia as a mixed load; only PE, PET and PP may come mixed [3].

Loose scrapped appliance lids, back covers and drawer trays in a bulk bag (illustration)
Illustration

Source 01

Home appliance plastic

Housings, refrigerator parts, covers and trays from scrapped household appliances, whole or crushed.

Best fit
ABS · HIPS · PS
Comes as
Whole, baled, crushed
Home appliance plastic scrap
Scrapped black car grilles and mirror housings piled on a pallet (illustration)
Illustration

Source 02

Automotive plastic

Plastic parts from dismantled cars and motorbikes, such as grilles, mirror housings, trim and fairings.

Best fit
ABS; read the marking
Comes as
Whole parts, crushed
Automotive plastic scrap
A low heap of crushed plastic regrind flakes (illustration)
Illustration

Source 03

Crushed product

Plastic products and parts already put through a crusher: flake or regrind, one polymer per lot.

Polymer
One per lot
Comes as
Flake, regrind
Crushed product, below

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What is crushed product, and what should an offer say about it?

Crushed product is plastic that has already been through a crusher or granulator: products and parts broken down into flake or regrind before they are sold on. Dayatas Profab treats crushed product as one of its three scrap sources, next to home appliance and automotive plastic. Crushed material packs denser than whole parts, but it hides what it was made from, so an offer of crushed product has to say more.

Plastic for recycling is sorted by polymer type and colour, ground into flakes and washed, and mixed or contaminated material gives inconsistent properties [7]. Tell Dayatas Profab four things about a crushed lot:

  • The polymerOne per lot: which polymer it is, and how you know it (a moulded marking, a test or the source).
  • The flake sizeRoughly, and whether it is even or mixed with fines and larger pieces.
  • How clean it isWashed or unwashed, and what is still in it. Malaysia caps other materials, such as metal, paper or dirt, at 2% of a lot [3].
  • The colourOne colour, sorted by colour, or mixed colours.
A loader bucket tipping crushed plastic flakes onto the stockpileCrushed · own footage
Own footage: a loader tips crushed flakes onto the stockpile

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Who can offer plastic scrap to Dayatas Profab?

Appliance recyclers, vehicle dismantlers, crushing operations and scrap traders usually hold the plastic scrap Dayatas Profab is looking for.

Dayatas Profab wants suppliers in Europe, America, Japan and Korea. Dismantlers take the plastic parts off end-of-life vehicles; traders sell scrap on in bales or bulk bags. A business that is none of these but holds plastic from one of the three sources can offer it the same way.

Outside the four regions

Say the country, the town and the port the material would ship from: Malaysia admits waste plastic only from Basel Convention parties or countries with an arrangement with it [3].

Who usually holds the scrap Dayatas Profab is looking for
HolderWhat they holdUsual form
Appliance recyclersPlastic separated from scrapped household appliancesWhole parts, bales, crushed
Vehicle dismantlersPlastic parts from end-of-life cars and motorbikesWhole parts
Crushing operationsProducts and parts already crushedFlake, regrind
Scrap tradersScrap gathered from several sourcesBales, bulk bags

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What should a scrap offer to Dayatas Profab include?

A scrap offer that Dayatas Profab can judge quickly answers the seven questions on the sheet.

None of them needs a laboratory: say what you know and mark what you do not. Photos matter most, because they show the form, the colour mix and how clean the material is better than any description; say that you have them, and ask where to send them. Say whether the lot is sorted, and mention any test results you hold.

Prices and lot sizes are agreed for each offer, once Dayatas Profab has confirmed the material fits; none of them is listed on this site. The supplier door of the enquiry form asks for the source; everything else goes in its message box.

Send your offer

Scrap offerTo: Dayatas Profab · Malaysia

  1. 01SourceHome applianceAutomotiveCrushed productOther
  2. 02Polymer, one per lotABSPSHIPSOtherNot sure: ask
  3. 03FormWhole partsBalesRegrindFlakes
  4. 04QuantityPer shipment, and how often you have it.
  5. 05Where it isThe country, the town and the port it would ship from.
  6. 06PhotosA wide shot of the load and a close-up of the material.
  7. 07Sorting or test informationAny you hold: polymer checks, washing, colour sort.

Price and lot size: agreed for each offer, once the material fits

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How does plastic scrap become Dayatas Profab's recycled ABS?

Dayatas Profab's own production footage shows scrap crushed, washed, sorted, extruded, pelletised and bagged.

Crushed flakes are washed and sorted, melted and pushed through an extruder, cut into pellets and bagged. The finished bags of ABS are printed ABS RECYCLED PELLET / MADE IN MALAYSIA / NET WEIGHT 25KG. So the polymer and how clean the scrap is matter: what goes into the washing line decides what a moulder gets out of the bag. Every step, with the film, is on how Dayatas Profab's recycled ABS is made, and the documents buyers ask for are on quality and documents.

  1. CrushedFlakes are tipped onto the stockpile.
  2. WashedThe flakes run through a washing line.
  3. SortedA sorting machine separates them; sorted flake runs into bulk bags.
  4. ExtrudedMolten strands leave the extruder into cooling water.
  5. PelletisedThe strands are cut into pellets and sieved.
  6. BaggedPellets are bagged from a silo: ABS in 25 kg bags.
Molten plastic strands leaving the extruder into cooling waterExtruded
Own footage: molten strands leave the extruder

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Which Basel entries apply to plastic scrap?

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Dayatas Profab looks for plastic scrap from abroad, so the Basel Convention plastic waste entries decide how an offer can move.

The Basel Convention controls the movement of plastic waste across borders among its parties [9]. Its plastic waste entries sort scrap into three kinds, and which one a lot falls under depends on what the material is and how clean and sorted it is. The terms are explained under Basel Convention and prior informed consent in the glossary.

Prior informed consent

The importing country, and any country of transit, consents to a shipment before it moves; the glossary has the full term.

The Basel plastic waste entries, as the Basel Convention states them (numbered sources below)
EntryWhat it coversCrossing a border
Basel plastic waste entries, in effect since 1 January 2021 [8]
A3210Plastic waste presumed to be hazardous.Prior informed consent needed.
B3011Plastic waste presumed not hazardous, for environmentally sound recycling and almost free from contamination.No Basel consent; the importing country's own rules still apply.
Y48Other plastic waste, mixtures included.Prior informed consent needed; Malaysia lets it in only with consent approved by its Department of Environment [3].

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Which rules apply on the route to Malaysia?

Rules checked

Dayatas Profab can only take plastic scrap that Malaysia's import rules admit, so the importing country comes first.

The rules of the exporting country apply as well, and for two of the four regions they change the answer. Tell Dayatas Profab your country and route; we will tell you what we know. Our licensing documents are to come and will be published on quality and documents.

Europe

Wanted; EU exports banned from 21 November 2026.

  1. Malaysia, the importing country

    A SIRIM Certificate of Approval since 1 July 2025 [10], held by a manufacturer licensed for the material. Clean, one polymer at 99.5% or more (only PE, PET and PP may come mixed), other materials at most 2%, no e-waste, and an inspection before shipment [3].

    SIRIM

  2. From the European Union

    Plastic waste exports to non-OECD countries are banned from 21 November 2026 [1]; Malaysia is not an OECD member [2]. In a European country outside the EU? Name it and ask.

    From 21 Nov 2026

  3. From the United States

    Not a Basel Convention party; Basel parties cannot trade Basel-controlled plastic scrap with it without a separate agreement [4]. So a US seller would need the agreement or arrangement route with Malaysia [3], and should ask.

    Not a Basel party

  4. From elsewhere in the Americas

    Malaysia admits waste plastic only from Basel Convention parties [5] or countries with an agreement or arrangement with it [3]: name your country in the offer.

    Name the country

  5. From Japan or Korea

    Both are Basel Convention parties [5] and OECD members [2]: the Basel entries above and Malaysia's rules apply.

    Basel parties

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What happens after you send Dayatas Profab an offer?

Dayatas Profab reads scrap offers and replies on whether the material fits its resin.

If it does, the next step is the route: your country and port against Malaysia's import rules, and the documents a shipment would need. Before you write, the questions scrap suppliers ask and the guides for suppliers on Insights may already answer yours.

  1. 01You send the offerThrough the supplier door of the enquiry form, with what you know about the material.
  2. 02Dayatas Profab replies on fitWhether the material suits its resin, and what else it needs to judge it.
  3. 03You ask about the routeYour country and port against Malaysia's rules; we tell you what we know.
  4. 04Terms are agreed per offerPrice, lot and shipment, once the material fits; none is listed on this site.

Phone, email and WhatsApp for this site are still to come, so today the enquiry form is the way in.

SRCSources · checked

Where do the rules and polymer facts on this page come from?

  1. European Commission: waste shipments (the new Waste Shipments Regulation and its timeline)environment.ec.europa.eu
  2. OECD: members and partnersoecd.org
  3. SIRIM: Guidelines for Importation and Inspection of Waste Plastic (May 2025, edition 1 rev 1)sirim-qas.com.my
  4. US EPA: international requirements for the export and import of plastic recyclables and wasteepa.gov
  5. Basel Convention: parties and signatoriesbasel.int
  6. IEA: Korea's Act on Resource Circulation of Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Vehiclesiea.org
  7. Wikipedia: plastic recyclingen.wikipedia.org
  8. Basel Convention: the plastic waste amendments (A3210, B3011, Y48)basel.int
  9. Basel Convention: plastic waste, overviewbasel.int
  10. SIRIM QAS: importation of waste plastic (Certificate of Approval from 1 July 2025)sirim-qas.com.my

Two doors into Dayatas Profab B · suppliers of scrap   A · buyers of resin

BFor suppliersSell us your scrap.Tell us:The seven things on the scrap offer sheet above, through the supplier door.Offer material AFor mouldersBuy resin.Tell us:The resin: ABS, PS or HIPSThe part you mouldThe quantityThe destination portEnquire as a buyer