Recyclable items include all paper products – newspapers & magazines, cardboard, milk and juice cartons, steel and aluminium cans, glass – clear white, green & brown, plastic bottles and containers (grades 1-6), plastic bags and plastic sheeting.
All products must be clean to be recycled. Any product soiled with food, paint or oil cannot be recycled.
What happens to the recyclables?
| Recyclable Item |
Recycled into? |
Recycled Where? |
| Newspapers |
newspapers |
Albury, NSW or Indonesia |
| Office paper |
office paper |
Melbourne |
| Paper/magazines |
help make newspaper |
exported to India or China |
| Cardboard |
packaging paper for cardboard |
AMCOR , WA , or Indonesia |
| Glass |
glass bottles |
ACI, SA |
| Milk & juice cartons |
high quality office paper (Reflex) |
NSW – 150kms south of Sydney |
Plastics – grade 1 (PET)
Plastics - grade 2
Plastic Bags & sheeting
|
25% used in new PET bottle, eg, coke or made into shirts
plastic products
plastic shopping bags |
VISY, Sydney China
exported to Indonesia
exported to Indonesia |
| Aluminium cans |
new aluminium cans |
Sims Metals, Perth |
| Steel cans |
new steel cans, used in car bodies, bicycles |
BHP |
