DAY 9 + 10 | Start a soft plastics bin
Your challenge:
Start a soft plastics bin in your household.
Soft plastics recycling is a less commonly practised form of recycling but it's super easy.
How:
The easy way to tell if plastic is soft or hard is the scrunch test. If it can be scrunched into a ball, it's soft. If it holds its shape, it's hard.
The following are 'soft' plastics and would go in this bin:
🛍 Plastic shopping bags
🍞 Bread, rice, pasta, lolly and cereal bags
🍪 Biscuit packs (but not the trays)
❄️ Frozen food bags
🫧 Bubble wrap
🍋 Fruit and veg bags and netting
🧻 Toilet paper packaging and similar product packaging
♷ Old reusable bags
IMPORTANT: Make sure your plastic is dry and as empty as possible!
For our AU community - Did you know you can deposit your collection at any one of the 830 REDcycle Drop off points across Australia - including at Coles and Woolworths.
To our worldwide friends, do your supermarkets offer a similar service?