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Plastics

Puh-lease! Puh-lastic! Households make up about 47% of all Australian plastic waste and recycle only about 12%, with the rest landing in landfill. This is the toxic relationship in need of a break-up! If you’re still clinging on, here’s some people to help.

David Jones

Go full circle. David Jones have teamed up with TerraCycle offering BeautyCycle drop-off boxes within their Beauty departments, accepting most packaging not accepted in kerbside recycling - that’s most beauty :(. By returning your empties to where you bought your beauties, you can help reduce landfill and recycle responsibly.

Empty Containers
Drop-Off
Free
Various Locations
GO!
Mecca

Beauty junkies, here’s a way to look good. Gather up your empty make-up, skincare and haircare bottles, tubes, pots and palettes, and deposit them at TerraCycle bins located at your local Mecca store. TerraCycle will process, pellet and produce new products from your any-brand beauty waste.

Empty Containers
Drop-Off
Free
Various Locations
GO!
Pharmacycle

A complete end-to-end solution for recycling blister packs, Pharmacycle is the blister boss having already saved over 8 million units from landfill since July 2022. Pop and drop your empty packs for free at Pharmacycle points at participating pharmacies or make use of their collect and send home satchels.

EMPTY PACKS
Drop-Off & Post
Free & Paid
Various Locations
GO!
RecycleSmart

Who wants to drown in a sea of soft plastics? Bag your baddies (you know the soft and scrunchy ones) and schedule a pick-up with RecycleSmart. They’ll make sure it gets to their processing partner - a plastic powerhouse crushing the recycling game by turning used plastics into plastic packaging again.

Soft Plastics
Collection
Subscription
Sydney
GO!
Return and Earn

If you’re not already on the return and earn bottle bandwagon, you will be by the time you finish reading this. Sort out your bottles and take your eligibles to your local return point and the reverse vending machine will give you some coin. Simple.

Empty Bottles
Drop-Off
Free
Various Locations
GO!
TerraCycle Zero Waste Box

You know all those things you’ve been putting in the too hard recycling basket and are actually not accepted via kerbside recycling; coffee capsules, baby food pouches and cleaning packaging? TerraCycle is here to help. Order boxes that fit your needs, fill ‘em up and send ‘em back to TerraCycle who’ll get TerraCycling.

Empty Containers
Post
Paid
Various Locations
GO!
BE A GOOD CITIZEN
  • Take note of what organisations do and don’t do

  • Only donate things in good condition 

  • Recycle the broken, busted, unfunctional and unusable responsibly

  • Prepare your items per organisations requirements

  • Reach out to organisations directly with any questions

  • Being an all-rounder takes time and tact - when that can’t be bothered feeling washes over you, ask yourself what would Greta do?