Plastic Bags
Plastic Checkout Bags in the Holroyd City Council area
Keep plastic bags out of your home recycling. Plastic bags can cause big problems when placed in your kerbside recycling bin.
Take plastic checkout bags to participating supermarkets for recycling.
Plastic checkout bags can be taken to participating supermarkets such as Coles, Woolworths, Franklins or Safeway for recycling. They cannot be placed in home recycling bins. Recycling contractors collect the plastic bags in bulk from participating retailers. The bags are then compacted into large heavy blocks ready for further processing and conversion into raw material to make recycled plastic products.
Reusable woven polypropylene bags (the 'green bags'), cotton and string bags can be washed to prolong their life. At the end of their life they can be taken to second hand stores if they are in good condition, or some materials may be useful as cleaning rags. Bags made from cotton, calico, hemp or bamboo fibres can also be composted a the end of their life.
Plastic checkout bag recycling drop-off locations near you include:
Woolworths - Granville
Cnr Louis & Blaxcell Streets
Granville NSW 2142
Flemings - Pendle Hill
109 Pendle Way
Pendle Hill NSW 2145
Franklins - Greystanes
Greystanes Shopping Centre
665-699 Merrylands Road
Greystanes NSW 2145
Franklins - Wentworthville
Wentworthville Mall Shopping Centre
Dunmore Street
Wentworthville NSW 2145
Woolworths - Greystanes
Greystanes Shopping Centre
Cnr Merrylands & Braeside Roads
Greystanes NSW 2145
Woolworths - Pemulwuy
Cnr Butu Wargun Drive & Greystanes Road
Pemulwuy NSW 2145
Woolworths - Wentworthville
Cnr Great Western Highway & Lane Street
Wentworthville NSW 2145
Coles - Blacktown
17 Patrick Street
Blacktown NSW 2148
Franklins - Blacktown Westpoint
Westpoint Shopping Centre
Cnr Patrick & Alpha Streets
Blacktown NSW 2148
Franklins - St. Martins Blacktown
St Martins Field Shopping Centre
Blacktown Road & Martins Crescent
Blacktown NSW 2148
Woolworths - Blacktown
Westpoint Shopping Centre
Cnr Alpha & Patrick Streets
Blacktown NSW 2148
Woolworths - Marayong
Quakers Court
Cnr Falmouth & Quaker Roads
Marayong NSW 2148
Woolworths - Prospect
Cnr Flushcombe Road & Myrtle Street
Prospect NSW 2148
Coles - Parramatta
159-175 Church Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
Woolworths - Parramatta
Westfield Shopping Centre
Campbell Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
Woolworths - Rosehill
28-30 Oak Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
Coles - Merrylands
Stockland Mall Shopping Centre
42 Pitt Street
Merrylands NSW 2160
Franklins - Merrylands Stockland
Stockland Mall
Pitt & Neil Streets
Merrylands NSW 2160
Franklins - Merrylands West
Merryway Shopping Centre
530 Merrylands Road
Merrylands NSW 2160
Coles - Guildford
291-299 Guildford Road
Guildford NSW 2161
Franklins - Horsley Drive Market Town
Wetherill Park Shopping Centre
1024 Horsley Drive
Wetherill Park NSW 2164
Franklins - Wetherill Park Stockland Mall
Stockland Town Centre
Polding & Roland Streets
Wetherill Park NSW 2164
Woolworths - Wetherill Park
Cnr Polding & Restwell Streets
Wetherill Park NSW 2164
About plastic checkout bags
- 20 million Australians still use over 3.9 billion plastic checkout bags a year. That’s 10 million a day!
- A person's use of a plastic checkout bag can be counted in minutes - however long it takes to get from the shops to their homes. However, plastic bags can take between 15 and 1,000 years to break down in the environment.
- Many marine and terrestrial animals are killed by plastic bags that escape from landfill. The best solution to this problem is to use reusable bags that prevent you using plastic bags in the first place.
Recycling plastic checkout bags
- Plastic bags cannot be placed in council recycling bins.
- Over 200,000 plastic checkout bags are dumped in landfills every hour.
- Only 3% of Australia's plastic bags are currently being recycled, despite recycling facilities being available at major supermarkets and retail outlets listed above.
For more info:
- Another way to reduce this problem is to avoid plastic bags in the first place.
- Use reusable bags for your shopping. Most reusable bags can be washed to prolong their life.
- Check out Planet Ark's plastic bags reduction website.
