Plastic bags and soft plastics
Soft plastic must not go in your household recycling bin. Soft plastic includes plastics which can be easily scrunched such as chip packets, plastic bags, freezer bags, bread bags, bubble wrap and pasta bags.
Disposal options
- Avoid single use plastic and plastic bags
- Reuse your plastic shopping bags
- Woolworths are trialling an in-store collection and recycling of soft plastics. Customers can return their clean and dry household soft plastics to the Soft Plastics Recycling bins located at the front of participating stores. Visit the Woolworths website to learn more.
- Recycle soft plastics through RecycleSmart (paid doorstep pickup service) or Terracycle Soft Plastics Zero Waste Box (fees apply)
- Place plastic bags and soft plastics in your household general waste bin.
Why?
Soft plastic tangles in the machinery at the Materials Recovery Facility. Do not put recycling in plastic bags as this prevents the recycling from being sorted by material type.
Related items
This may include shopping bags; soft plastic; food packets; plastic zip-lock bags; sandwich bags; biodegradable plastic bags; wrap; bubble wrap; pallet wrap; chocolate packaging; chip packets; packaging; cereal inserts; plastic sleeves; lolly wrappers; redcycle; green bags; potting mix bags; muesli bar wrappers.