Recycling bins at Coles and Safeway

[Moondog55]

Copy and paste from a link Cecile just shared on Facebook

It's the 'stuff' you can't put in the ‪#‎recycling‬ bin like chip packets, biscuit packets, cereal bags, bread bags, frozen vegie bags, salad packets etc. Well guess what?!?!? These can all be dropped off to 530 Coles stores and 100 Woolworths stores around Australia for #recycling into park benches and play equipment!
I've made this one little change to my bin routine. I'll now take it all back to the supermarket. It's not hard to do and it's so much better for the planet. Let's kick plastic pollution in the butt!

Excerpt from CHOICE Article (link contained within Comment below)
"Which plastics does the bin collect?
The rule of thumb is: if the plastic can be scrunched up into a ball, it can be placed in a REDcycle collection bin. Examples of acceptable plastics include:
•Bread, pasta and rice bags
•Cereal box liners
•Biscuit packets
•Frozen food bags
•Ice cream wrappers
•Squeeze pouches
•Plastic sachets
•Bubble wrap
•Cling wrap
•Chocolate and muesli bar wrappers
•Silver-lined chip and cracker packets
•Confectionery bags
•Fresh produce bags
•Netting citrus bags
•Polypropylene bags
•Plastic film from grocery items like nappies and toilet paper
•Courier satchels
•Newspaper and magazine wrap
•Sturdy pet food bags
•Plastic bags from boutique/department stores
•Large sheets of plastic that furniture comes wrapped in (cut into pieces the size of an A3 sheet of paper first)"

[north-north-west]

That's twice in just a few minutes. Thanks ever so much for this - I wasn't aware there was a recycling option for all those bags and wrappings. I use some bags as small bin liners but there's still too much plastic that can potentially hit the landfill.
No to make sure the option is available in Tassie . . .

[keithy]

I started doing this when I read tom_brennan's post viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23229#p300303

Around me I noticed it was only Coles and Woolies didn't have any yet. But it has been an eyeopener to see how much plastic is used in everything. For the past few months, after sorting out recyclables, paper, and now soft plastics, the amount of actual landfill bound garbage produced by our household is reduced quite substantially!