Soft plastics appear with all sorts of products and most of it ends up in landfill. This pilot is testing ways in which post-consumer soft plastics can be collected and recycled through your kerbside recycling bin. This provides a 'second chance' for soft plastics, which are long-lived materials that are suitable to be recycled again and again.

To build a truly circular economy for soft plastics, we need to make it easy for people to recycle soft plastics after use and support the development of a new, advanced recycling industry for soft plastics here in Australia. As it develops, that industry will increase its capacity to take post-consumer soft plastic and turn it back into new packaging, ready for reuse.

It is also important to reduce your use of soft plastics, where practical alternatives exist. While not all soft plastics can be readily avoided, always ask yourself the question "Do I need this?" before making a purchase.