What type of plastic is...

lightisfading

Hi all,
I'm wondering if the thin collapsable plastic box style packaging can be recycled - this stuff: http://www.clearcreations.com.au/images/plastic_packaging_box_13.jpg . Anyone have any idea what type of plastic it is?

alanobrien

lightisfading wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm wondering if the thin collapsable plastic box style packaging can be recycled - this stuff: http://www.clearcreations.com.au/images/plastic_packaging_box_13.jpg . Anyone have any idea what type of plastic it is?

If its food packaging its likely to be something like polypropylene coated with polyvinylidene chloride. Unfortunately some of these are recyclable some are not.

lightisfading

Thank you alanobrian

Just realised I accidentally put this in 'greenfingered' instead of 'green+ ethical' .. d'oh!

tanith

Our council have just started recycling plastic and we were told we could put out any plastic but NOT toys or garden furniture... anything else is ok... I was amazed at the amount of plastic there was after just a week .. now I only put out half a black bag of ordinary rubbish about once a fortnight everything else is recycled...

arkonite_babe

lightisfading wrote: »

Thank you alanobrian

Just realised I accidentally put this in 'greenfingered' instead of 'green+ ethical' .. d'oh!

I'll move it to g&e for you