Soft plastics are very common packaging. They include items such as:
- crisp bags
- lolly wrappers
- bread bags
- shopping bags
- produce bags
- bubble wrap.
These are not recyclable through your recycling bin. When collected, they wrap and tangle around machinery at the Material Recovery Facility. This causes a full stop of the operations to clear it up.
Soft plastics contaminate paper and cardboard, which reduces its value and recyclability.
Please place your soft plastics in your green lid general waste bin.