Soft plastics

Soft plastics include items such as plastic bags, bubble wrap, cling wrap, confectionary bags or wrappers and more. Soft plastics CANNOT be recycled in your kerbside recycling (yellow-lid) bin. They can however, be recycled in specifically designated soft plastics bins located at various local grocery stores.

The NSW Government’s ban on lightweight plastic bags came into effect on 1 June 2022. It is the first in a two-stage ban on single-use plastics in 2022 that will to help prevent almost 2.7 billion items of plastic litter from ending up in our NSW environment over the next 20 years.

Useful Links

NSW EPA - Single-use plastic ban NSW 2022 - toolkit(PDF, 1MB)

REDcycle website