Recycling has become a healthy habit for most Australian households, but despite our best efforts, around ten per cent of the items placed inside our household yellow bins don't actually belong there. 9News
Recycling has become a healthy habit for most Australian households, but despite our best efforts, around ten per cent of the items placed inside our household yellow bins don't actually belong there.9News was given rare access to the country's biggest recycling plant - the VISY Materials Recovery Facility at Smithfield in Sydney's west to see what happens after your yellow bin is collected.
More manual labourers then sort through what's left, pulling out lots of soft plastics, old toys and old shoes, as well as items often known as "wish cycling". The most common item being mistakenly "recycled" is soft plastics - including by people who place all of their recycling into a plastic bin bag before throwing it in the yellow bin.The process starts by hand with an employee pulling off any large items that shouldn't have been put in the yellow bin.
Lauren said recycling is really important as "it helps us divert valuable materials from landfill and give them an opportunity to be used again as new packaging."
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