The Soft Plastic Recycling programme is no longer operating in the South Island. For more details, please visit the Soft Plastic Recycling website(external link).
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All soft plastics must go in your rubbish bin.
Why you can’t put them in the yellow bin
Soft plastic packaging is not collected by The Council for recycling because it can contaminate the recycling process.
There actually isn’t any value in soft plastics – it's not like other recyclables like glass and aluminium - so we have to pay to have it recycled. That’s why we need to have manufacturers and big brands contributing to the costs of recycling this soft plastic.