It’s important to know that hard plastics go into your yellow-lidded recycling bin and soft plastics go into your red-lidded general waste bin or can be recycled through REDcycle at your local Woolworths and Coles Supermarkets.
Hard plastics are processed at your local MRF (Material Recovery Facility), they items are then turned into recycled products.
Unfortunately, soft plastics are unable to be processed at your local MRF because they create mechanical issues for the machinery, however for those “keen” recyclers, you are able to drop them off at the REDcycle bins in your local area, otherwise they must go into your red-lidded general waste bin.
Click HERE for more info on REDcycle.