MBA Polymers is a recycling company[1] with operations globally that recovers plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and auto-shredder residue from end-of-life automobiles (ELV).

The pair left Dow in 1992 and initially wanted to prove that it was possible to recycle plastics from complex packaging waste streams but they ultimately focused on durable goods recovery.

The sorted parts were ground and could then be pelletized for reuse but it was costly and difficult to acquire enough of any given type of plastic to justify the expense.

Once a mixture of durable goods such as refrigerators are ground into chips, the metal may be removed by magnets and other magnetic-based separators such as eddy-current sorters.

The technique remains the only reliable process to separate two different varieties of the same plastic such a two commercial grades of ABS with different melt flow properties.

[21] Having opened its first pilot-recycling facility in 1994,[22] MBA Polymers also has built recycling plants in the UK, China, Austria and Germany[1][23][24][25] In 2004 MBA Polymers created a joint venture with Guangzhou Iron and Steel Enterprises Holdings Ltd to establish its sustainable recycling operations in China.

The plant produces post-consumer plastics from automotive shredder residue, appliances and electronics and has a processing capacity of over 40,000 metric tons per annum.

[28] MBA has more than 150,00 metric tons per year of processing capacity in Europe, China and the U.S. to turn waste into recycled plastics.