Sell PET Bottles in Sheikhupura: Rates, Grading & Collection for Dealers and Factories

Sheikhupura sits on Punjab’s busiest industrial corridors — between Lahore, Faisalabad and the M-2 motorway — and its towns, markets, factories and roadside businesses use a lot of bottled drinks. Those empty PET bottles are a raw material for polyester fibre, strapping and packaging. If you collect, trade or generate them, there is real value in selling them properly.

Shahbaz Traders is a PET recycler based in Okara. We buy bottles from across the Sheikhupura area, then sort, crush and hot-wash them into rPET flakes for manufacturers. Here is how selling to us works — and how to get more for every load.

Who sells PET bottles to us in Sheikhupura

• Scrap dealers and kabadiwalas in Sheikhupura city, Muridke, Ferozewala and the surrounding towns, who gather bottles from many small sources.
• Collectors and small sorting yards who buy from street collectors and build bulk loads.
• Factories and industrial units along the Lahore–Sheikhupura and Sheikhupura–Faisalabad roads and in Quaid-e-Azam Business Park, whose canteens and staff produce steady volumes of bottles.
• Hotels, restaurants, marriage halls, schools and offices that want their bottles to go somewhere useful — and get paid for it.

What sets your rate

We price every load by how much clean PET it contains. In order of value:

Rates also move with the market — demand from flake buyers, virgin PET prices and the season (rates usually firm up in winter when fewer bottles are collected). We explain all of this in PET bottle scrap rate in Pakistan, and the winter pattern in why PET rates rise in winter. That is why we quote today’s rate for your load rather than printing a fixed price.

How to prepare your load for a better rate

1. Separate clear from coloured. Two bags instead of one is the easiest extra money in this trade.
2. Keep bottles dry and under cover. Rain-soaked bottles get weight deductions — and sun-baked, brittle bottles from months outdoors are worth less.
3. Keep out other plastics. Shopping bags, PP tubs, HDPE containers and oil bottles reduce the value of the whole load.
4. Remove caps and labels when it’s cheap to do. Even partly cleaned loads earn more.
5. Bag tightly or bale. Dense loads cost less to transport, which helps your rate.

Collection or drop-off: how it works

Larger loads — several tons and up, especially baled material — can be collected from your location in the Sheikhupura area. Send your quantity, bottle type and a photo, and we confirm the rate and arrange the pickup.

Smaller loads are welcome at our yard on Okara Bypass, Saturday to Thursday, 6am–8pm (Friday closed). Call ahead and we’ll tell you today’s rate before you set off.

If you sell regularly — every week or every month — tell us. Regular suppliers help us plan, and we keep a steady channel open for them.

Weighing and payment

Whoever you sell to, this is what fair looks like — and what you get with us:

• Weighing in front of you, with the weight recorded.
• Any deduction explained before — for water, dirt or other plastics — never discovered later.
• Prompt payment, on the terms agreed before you sell.

For a wider guide that applies anywhere in Punjab, see how to sell PET bottles in Pakistan. If you are thinking of growing your collection into a business, read collect, bale or crush?

Factories in Sheikhupura: turn bottle waste into income

Many industrial units in Sheikhupura generate bottles every day from canteens, staff and visitors — and often pay to have them removed with general waste. A simple setup changes that: a separate bin for PET bottles, a covered collection point, and a regular pickup once you have built up a load. It keeps your site cleaner, turns waste into income, and gives you a clear recycling record. Our guide to setting up a buy-back loop walks through it step by step. If you have PET production rejects — bottles or preforms — send us a photo and we will tell you whether we can take them.

Supplying flakes as well as buying bottles, we also serve manufacturers in the area — see our Sheikhupura page.

Frequently asked questions