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Plastic Bags Recycling Hotline

Keep plastic bags out of your home recycling. Plastic bags can cause big problems when placed in your kerbside recycling bin.

Take plastic checkout bags to participating supermarkets for recycling.

Plastic checkout bags can be taken to participating supermarkets such as Coles, Woolworths, Franklins or Safeway for recycling. They cannot be placed in home recycling bins. Recycling contractors collect the plastic bags in bulk from participating retailers. The bags are then compacted into large heavy blocks ready for further processing and conversion into raw material to make recycled plastic products.

Reusable woven polypropylene bags (the 'green bags'), cotton and string bags can be washed to prolong their life. At the end of their life they can be taken to second hand stores if they are in good condition, or some materials may be useful as cleaning rags. Bags made from cotton, calico, hemp or bamboo fibres can also be composted a the end of their life.

Plastic Check-out Bags in the Ipswich City Council area

Drop off locations for Plastic Check-out Bags

8 drop off businesses match on Plastic Check-out Bags within approx 60km of Ipswich QLD

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Business Name Address Suburb State Postcode Lon Lat Distance (Km)
Gatton Landfill Ford Road Gatton QLD 4343 152.2158495 -27.7018635
Hassle Free Recycling Pty Ltd 4/528 Seventeen Mile Rocks Rd Seventeen Mile Rocks QLD 4073 152.9545190 -27.5411090
Resource Recoveries & Recycling 706 MT Cotton Rd Sheldon QLD 4157 153.2191531 -27.5768247
Richlands Resource Recovery Centre 24 Bandara Street Richlands QLD 4077 152.9403360 -27.5899650
NAIT Recycling and Waste Management 35-37 Matheson Street Virginia QLD 4014 153.0595470 -27.3687930
Smartskip 2145 Ipswich Road Oxley QLD 4075 152.98479080200195 -27.56485729418132
Prempac Recycling Solutions Pty Limited 58 Klingner Road Scarborough QLD 4020 153.1099910 -27.2225253
Eurokey Recycling 71 Grice Street Clontarf QLD 4019 153.08049201965332 -27.234407769106383

Pick up locations for Plastic Check-out Bags

5 pick up businesses match your query on Plastic Check-out Bags

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Business Name Details Picks up Fees
Handybin Waste Services Click Business Name for details Qld (Metro Area Only) May apply
ReuseMoose.com Click Business Name for details Nationally Free
Waste Management Australia Click Business Name for details Qld May apply
Prempac Recycling Solutions Pty Limited Product inspection prior to pick up confirmation. free ... Qld May apply
Eurokey Recycling We can offer better value for your plastic waste if it... Qld Free

About plastic checkout bags

  • 20 million Australians still use over 3.9 billion plastic checkout bags a year. That’s 10 million a day!
  • A person's use of a plastic checkout bag can be counted in minutes - however long it takes to get from the shops to their homes. However, plastic bags can take between 15 and 1,000 years to break down in the environment.
  • Many marine and terrestrial animals are killed by plastic bags that escape from landfill. The best solution to this problem is to use reusable bags that prevent you using plastic bags in the first place.

Recycling plastic checkout bags

  • Plastic bags cannot be placed in council recycling bins.
  • Over 200,000 plastic checkout bags are dumped in landfills every hour.
  • Only 3% of Australia's plastic bags are currently being recycled, despite recycling facilities being available at major supermarkets and retail outlets listed above.

For more info:

  • Another way to reduce this problem is to avoid plastic bags in the first place.
  • Use reusable bags for your shopping. Most reusable bags can be washed to prolong their life.
  • Check out Planet Ark's plastic bags reduction website.