Recycling Basics: How to Recycle Properly

Here's the final (and most practical) instalment of our three-part Recycling Basics series for Plastic Free July 2020 - How to Recycle Properly. Whether or not the recycling you put in your bin actually gets recycled can be largely up to you, so let's make sure to do it right! One household's bin of dirty recycling/non-recyclables can contaminate an entire truck-full and cause everything to go to landfill. Not only that, most recycling centres in New Zealand hand-sort recycling, so it's important to keep workers safe and keep hazardous materials out of the recycling bin. Rinsing recycling and checking numbers is super important, but there's something better you can do even before then; avoid plastic packaging altogether! Let's all do better this Plastic Free July and beyond.