The Sustainability Trust has advised that recycling of plastic caps will be changing, as The Tiny Plastic Factory has stopped taking them while it works on a new circular economy solution for plastics in the economy . They have now secured a new collection partnership with Aotearoa NZ Made Ltd. There are a couple of key changes to the plastic bottle cap recycling programme. Metal items remain the same.
However only plastics 2 and 5 are accepted and they must be sorted.
Saturday 5 February will therefore be the last time that we can accept unsorted plastic lids – if you can seperate them this week even better.
At future collections we will only have seperate buckets for type 2 plastic lids, and for type 5 plastic lids.