What is Laundry Pump made of and is it recyclable?Updated 12 days ago
TL;DR: The Laundry Pump bottle is HDPE plastic with 50% recycled content and a Reloop additive. HDPE is widely accepted at kerbside, but the soft-touch matte finish means council acceptance can vary, so check your council's guidelines. The head has a sealed metal spring inside, so it goes in general waste. Refill and reuse for as long as you can.
What is Laundry Pump made of?
✓ Materials breakdown
Bottle: HDPE, blended with a resin that gives it the soft-touch matte finish, carrying 50% post-consumer recycled content and a Reloop additive. Pump head: HDPE plastic actuator with an internal metal spring and a twist-and-screw lock, matte finish.
What is the Reloop additive?
✓ How Reloop works
Reloop is an additive blended into the bottle plastic. Once the bottle reaches a microbe-rich environment such as landfill or soil, the additive attracts microbes that break the plastic's long molecular chains down into biomass, water and carbon dioxide. Reloop's manufacturer states that under those conditions the process typically completes within 3 to 6 years, against centuries for untreated plastic. It doesn't shorten the bottle's working life, and the plastic stays recyclable while you're using it.
Can I recycle Laundry Pump?
✓ The bottle
HDPE, which is widely accepted at kerbside. Council acceptance can still vary because of the soft-touch matte finish, so check your council's plastics guidelines or a service like Recycle Mate first. Give it a rinse before it goes in the bin.
⚠ The pump head
The metal spring is sealed inside the plastic actuator, and most recycling facilities can't separate the two, so the head goes in general household waste once it's worn out. Or grab a Laundry Pump Head spare and keep the bottle going.
How do I make Laundry Pump last longer before recycling?
✓ Refill, don't replace
Keeping the pump in service is the most useful thing you can do with it. Refill it from Sensitive Laundry Liquid and rinse the nozzle weekly. The mechanism is rated for around 3,000 presses.
✓ Swap the head, keep the bottle
When the pump clogs beyond recovery or stops dispensing after troubleshooting, Laundry Pump Head is a spare that fits every version of Laundry Pump. Keep the bottle, swap the head.
Direct-swap spare. Keeps the bottle in use instead of binning the whole pump.
Bag-in-box refill that keeps Laundry Pump in service for thousands more presses. Around 60 washes per box.
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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Koh Australia