Do You Recycle Those Small Bags with The Recycling Symbol LDPE 4 & PEHD 2?

These commonly appear in products such as printers and other electronic consumables. Usually to hold the product manual…

Apparently these aren't allowed in your council bins, which seems quite ironic as they can be recycled, just not in Australia apparently. What a third world country we live in! Hehe ^_^

Has anyone had their bin rejected due to a large amount of recyclable bags in them?

I buy a lot of electronic goods and repackage them for export after removing the junk to minimise the weight.

Comments

  • What electrical goods are you shipping os?

  • +2

    Soft plastics can be recycled in the bin out the front of Coles. The reason these can't be recycled through the kerbside bin is that the plastic gets caught in the sorting process.

  • -3

    (profanity) recycling.

  • -3

    Too hard. I just shove any old shit in my recycle bin that looks like it should be recycled or its got a triangle symbol on it. I like to think of it as helping keep people employed in the waste sorting plants, you know, doin my bit for 'straya. Its like a rudimentary first sort, knowing some other process will sort it better later on.

    Brake rotors recycle bin
    Hard plastics recycle bin
    Greasy paper bags from chips, recycle bin
    Plastic bags - rubbish bin
    Xmas gift packaging (boxes and plastics) - wherever it fits
    Soft drink plastic lids - recycle bin
    Maccas cups with straws - recycle bin

    I'd put more shit in my rubbish bin, if the council hadn't replaced it with some tiny thing they call a bin. Their problem, not mine.

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