Plastic bag and wrapper recycling
Great news! More and more people are recycling plastic bags and wrapping like crisp packets and bread bags at supermarkets across Buckinghamshire. It doesn’t matter where you bought them. Just pop them into the recycling units in store and they’ll do the rest.
Plastic bag and wrappers recycling is easy. Just follow these three steps:
- Clean it – First, rinse your packaging out.
- Scrunch it – Now, scrunch it up tight - if it pings back, it’s a useful indicator it's soft plastic.
- Drop it - Pop it into our soft plastics recycling unit at a supermarket near you.
Yes please
- Plastic carrier bags
- Bread bags
- Frozen food bags
- Delivery bags
- Cereal liners
- Toilet roll wrapping
- Multi-pack wrapping
- Salad, pasta, and rice bags
- Cheese, fish and meat wrapping
- Crisps, sweet bags, biscuit and chocolate wrapping
- Baby, pet food, detergent and cleaning pouches
- Flexible plastic packaging lids
No thanks
- Compostable and biodegradable bags and wrapping
- Cardboard packaging
- Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
- Bubble wrap and cling film
What are plastic bags and wrappers?
Plastic bags and wrappers are lightweight plastics that cannot be placed in recycling bins at home. Think plastic film lids on yoghurt pots, soft fruit punnets and ready meals, as well as plastic crisp packets, pasta bags and chocolate or biscuit wrappers.
What they’re not are plastic bottles, tubs, pots, trays and caps. If you’re not sure, a simple test is to scrunch it up and if it pings back, it’s a useful indicator it's soft plastic.
Find your nearest recycling store using the Waste Wizard below