Plastic Bag Recycling

Plastic bag recycling involves chipping the bags into pellets.

Plastic bag recycling.

Plastic bags wraps typically do not get recycled in curbside bins. So please don t put plastic bags and wraps in your curbside bin if your recycling program says no. Some stores have temporarily halted collection of plastic bags and wraps. They must be returned to participating drop off locations such as retail stores for recycling.

Thank you for recycling your plastic bags and wraps. Recycling plastic film carrier bags at supermarkets. Plastic bags like those used for bread newspapers and as cereal box liners as well as sandwich bags dry cleaning bags and grocery bags create similar problems for recycling machinery as thin. While pellets can then be reprocessed into new bags they will most likely be shipped to a company like trex to be manufactured into plastic lumber.

Most plastic wraps most stretchy plastic wraps like the wrap around multi packs of drink bottles paper towels or diapers can be recycled through store drop off. Resin that has been created from fossil fuels is known as virgin resin whereas resin from recycled plastic is known as post consumer resin pcr. Plastic bags are rarely collected as part of local authority kerbside collections most local recycling centres won t accept them either. During this covid 19 pandemic we urge you to recycle your plastic bags wraps and other film packaging at drop off locations only when and where possible.

For those who can t recycle plastic film at home some types of plastic films can be recycled at carrier bag collection points at the larger stores of most major supermarkets including tesco asda morrisons sainsbury s the co op and waitrose. It s not that used plastic bags and wraps can t be recycled into new materials they simply require a different collection system and processing equipment than many curbside recycling programs provide. See below for a list of recyclable plastic packaging. If you re not properly recycling plastic bags it s better to throw them away in the garbage rather than in the wrong recycling bin hambrose said.

Thank you for recycling your plastic bags and wraps. Some supermarkets now offer instore recycling banks for carrier bags or the option to hand the bags back to the driver if your shopping is delivered to your home. Hambrose said doing this will at least keep the bags from blowing away and ending up hanging from trees and fences. But please do recycle them.

Besides pollution recycling plastic bags also reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gas. During this covid 19 pandemic we urge you to recycle your plastic bags wraps and other film packaging at drop off locations only when and where possible. Most plastic bags like grocery bags produce bags newspaper bags zipper sandwich bags and some cereal bags can be recycled through store drop off. Even better tie the bags in knots and put trash inside of them before you toss them.